The rise of the commercial space industry precipitated a steeper decline at Rocketdyne. Boeing sold the Rocketdyne division ...

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NASA plans to send crewed missions to Mars over the next decade – but the 140 million-mile (225 million-kilometer) journey to the red planet could take several months to years round trip. This ...

In a historic leap for its sovereign space ambitions, the UAE has successfully designed, built, and test-fired its first liquid-fuelled rocket engine. Developed entirely in Abu Dhabi by the Technology ...

SpaceX’s Raptor engine and Blue Origin’s BE-4 engine are two key innovations in rocket propulsion, each with its unique design and performance characteristics. While the Raptor engine leverages ...

Engineers from Ohio State University are developing a new way to power rocket engines, using liquid uranium for a faster, more efficient form of nuclear propulsion that could deliver round trips to ...

Alliant Techsystems recently demonstrated a critical capability of its liquid oxygen (LOX)/Methane rocket engine by igniting it in a vacuum chamber. The successful ignition test was designed to ...

Colorado-based engine maker Ursa Major has secured an order for its developmental Draper rocket powerplant. The propulsion start-up on 17 September said it had received a $35 million contract from an ...

SpaceDev (OTCBB: SPDV) after recently completing work on a full duration, maximum energy, ground test firing of a more powerful version of the rocket motors destined for SpaceShipOne, SpaceDev has ...

When a American-made reusable aircraft broke the hypersonic barrier for the first time in nearly 60-years this past December, it was not one of the aerospace industry’s prime engine makers, but a ...

It seems too good to be true, but UK-based Pulsar Fusion has revealed its new Sunbird self-contained nuclear rocket tug that uses a fusion propulsion engine that could reduce a trip to Mars to under ...