Welcome to Edition 7.30 of the Rocket Report! The US government relies on SpaceX for a lot of missions. These include ...

A laboratory prototype of a plasma electric rocket engine based on a magnetic plasma accelerator has been produced by Rosatom ...

Russia's first space launch in 2025 also marked the final mission of its Soyuz-2.1v light launcher, with the country ...

Explore SpaceX’s powerful Starship and its mission to reach Mars and beyond. ExtremeTech breaks down its design, goals, and ...

SpaceX's gigantic Starship rocket has been "lost" just minutes into ... the company said it had lost contact with Starship as the engines went out. A host on SpaceX's livestream soon confirmed ...

Nuclear propulsion could be the future of space travel and NASA and General Atomics just brought us one step closer.

Credit: OroraTech WASHINGTON — Rocket Lab announced Jan. 22 a contract to launch a set of wildfire-monitoring satellites for German company OroraTech on a short turnaround. Rocket Lab said it ...

The company has successfully trialed a nuclear fuel that could one day drastically cut down the travel time to Mars and beyond. The tests showed the fuel can withstand the harsh conditions of a ...

Since then all the advances have been in making rockets larger and more efficient through innovations peripheral to the rocket engine itself. There are alternatives to chemical rockets ...

The tests involved two 120-tonne liquid oxygen-kerosene rocket engines and one 18-tonne liquid oxygen-kerosene rocket engine. The institute noted that this marks a major advancement in the country ...

CASC, meanwhile, is developing more powerful and complex full flow staged combustion methalox engines for its Long March 9 super heavy-lift rocket. SAST launched its expendable, kerosene-liquid ...

Here's the moment that New Glenn's engines engaged and the huge Blue Origin rocket launched for the first time. It's a pivotal moment for the company and its owner Jeff Bezos after years of delays ...