Solid Rocket Motors allow extended range and customized thrust profiles with the same propellant and the same size rocket motor.

SpaceX's latest uncrewed Starship launch at first went off without a boom May 27 but eventually broke up almost an hour after it took off. After two test flights ended in dramatic explosions earlier ...

Debris scatters on June 26, 2025, during a static fire test of a new solid rocket motor at a Northrop Grumman facility in Utah. The motor is supposed to be used in later Artemis moon missions. A test ...

The most powerful rocket system ever constructed is headed for its next test — using a version of the vehicle that has been at the center of a series of explosive missteps and failures. SpaceX said it ...

CAS Space is preparing to launch its first liquid propellant rocket, the Kinetica 2, carrying a prototype cargo spacecraft — the latest sign of China's accelerating commercial launch sector.

NASA has completed the first full-scale static test fire of the Booster Obsolescence and Life Extension (BOLE) solid rocket motor, the next-generation solid rocket booster for the space agency’s SLS ...

Thursday (Oct. 9) is Arm and Hammer's second annual Baking Soda Rocket Day. Thousands of students across the U.S. are ...

An experimental SpaceX rocket exploded at the end of a high-altitude test flight Tuesday, but heavy fog at the site left even SpaceX at least publicly uncertain about exactly what caused the explosion ...

An Alpha rocket blows up on the pad. The booster stage for Firefly Aerospace's next Alpha rocket was destroyed Monday in a ...

Tokyo — Japan's second-biggest carmaker, Honda, has successfully tested an experimental reusable rocket, the company says, as it seeks to expand into the space sector. Honda, which hopes to develop ...

Elon Musk and SpaceX are getting a little closer to sending humans to Mars, but they still have plenty of work to do. After the last two test flights ended prematurely with the destruction of the ...

A world-first study has proven microbes essential for human health can survive the extreme forces of space launch. The study ...