The latest hot-fire of NASA’s Artemis moon rocket engine at Stennis Space Center was more than a dramatic plume on the ...
From plasma engines that could turn months of travel into weeks to the first blueprints for ships that will outlive their ...
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Who invented the modern rocket engine?

Modern spaceflight rests on a deceptively simple idea: a machine that carries its own fuel and oxidizer, then hurls exhaust backward fast enough to push itself forward. The person who first turned ...
It may seem like a horse-drawn Zeppelin, but Astro Mechanica seems to be all-in on its revolutionary hybrid-electric ...
The X-1’s fuselage was designed to resemble a .50 caliber bullet—one of the only shapes known to have stable flight at ...
A fifth Falcon 9 launch for December from Vandenberg Space Force Base on Saturday night ended up being a mission heard, but not necessarily seen, thanks ...
Elon Musk promised to build a spaceship that would put people and cargo into Earth orbit at one-hundredth of the current cost per kilo and even enable human beings to create a colony on Mars. A great ...
An important part of data collection for the United States space program, the North American X-15 had astonishing performance utilizing the technology of ...
The project is based on the Bentley Continental GT Speed. It boasts enhancements on the outside, beneath the skin, and in the ...
They were designed with its Noyron Large Computational Engineering Model and 3D printed with a high-temperature copper alloy.
Welcome to Edition 8.21 of the Rocket Report! We’re back after the Thanksgiving holiday with more launch news. Most of the big stories over the last couple of weeks came from abroad. Russian rockets ...