NASA’s push for a new nuclear rocket engine is not just another upgrade to the hardware we strap to the bottom of spacecraft.

HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (WHNT) — Parts of Huntsville are headed into space, but this time, the parts are reusable. According to the Blue Origin website, the engines of the Blue Origin New Glenn reusable ...

NASA aims to send astronauts to Mars by the 2030s. But with current technology, the journey will be years long. That's why NASA invested in a new type of rocket that could shorten the trip to just 2 ...

SpaceX owns 98% of global rocket launches, a monopoly with virtually no competition. Only China is competing with Elon Musk at this point in number of launches and, while the country is getting closer ...

Blue Origin has shared footage of a successful hotfire test of its next-generation BE-4 rocket engine. The video shows the rocket pumping out up to 550,000 pounds of thrust, with Blue Origin engineers ...

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Rotating Detonation Engines (RDE) have been flown by Venus Aerospace. They use continuous detonation waves for propulsion and provide 15% efficiency gains (in specific impulse or fuel consumption) ...

Ursa Major, America’s leading privately funded company focused solely on rocket propulsion, today announced a milestone in the development of its redesigned “Ripley” rocket engine: successful hotfire ...

An Ursa Major propulsion engineer works on a 5,000-pound thrust “Hadley” rocket engine Ursa Major, America’s only privately funded company that focuses solely on rocket propulsion, today announced a ...