I've never looked at a rocket engine and thought "well that's dull", but this design makes all the others look positively pedestrian. That's because, rather than the traditional process of countless ...

Rocket Lab launched its 40th Electron mission this week and achieved an important milestone in its quest to reuse orbital rockets. As part of the mission, the launch company reused a previously flown ...

The previously used Rutherford engine passed qualification tests and is set to make history as the first 3D-printed engine to reach space for a second time. Reading time 3 minutes Reusability is the ...

A powerful rocket engine for moon missions just fired up for the second time in less than a week. NASA completed a new test for the Space Launch System (SLS) megarocket on Tuesday (Jan. 23), firing an ...

A groundbreaking nuclear rocket engine that could completely change how we conduct long distance space missions is now under construction. The Pulsar Fusion rocket could more than halve the time it ...

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LONG BEACH, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Rocket Lab USA, Inc. (Nasdaq: RKLB) (“Rocket Lab” or “the Company”), a global leader in launch services and space systems, today announced it has completed the ...

There have been full scale nuclear thermal rocket engines built and tested on the ground since the 1960s. The US had the NERVA project. The attraction is that the ISP would be up to triple the ISP of ...

Using supersonic shockwaves for combustion, the groundbreaking design could allow aircraft to travel up to six times the speed of sound. Reading time: Reading time 4 minutes Venus Aerospace is a ...