SpaceX’s debut of its next-generation version of Starship managed to take flight Friday, suffering engine headaches after ...
Students in Switzerland have recently tested an experimental rocket engine that is capable of ...
SpaceX just took a big step toward its next Starship test flight, firing up all 33 engines of the vehicle's Super Heavy on the pad in Texas.
The Space Shuttle, despite two very traumatizing accidents, is without a doubt one of our species' most successful family of otherworldly vehicles. Introduced in 1981, the family flew a total of 135 ...
There has been only one mission of the Artemis program to date, an uncrewed test flight of the Orion spacecraft that was conducted back in 2022. Judging this solely from this perspective, you could be ...
The Artemis II mission is set to launch four astronauts atop NASA’s SLS (Space Launch System) rocket later today – and while this specific rocket is only flying on its second mission, its core stage ...
Jeff Thornburg helped turn a government research project into SpaceX’s most powerful rocket engine. Now, he’s trying to do the same thing at his startup Portal Space Systems, which is taking an idea ...
NASA’s push for a new nuclear rocket engine is not just another upgrade to the hardware we strap to the bottom of spacecraft. It is an attempt to rewrite the basic rules of how far, how fast, and how ...