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 ...

SpaceX currently controls nearly every rocket launch on Earth. With 98% of global orbital launches under its belt, Elon Musk's company has become the de facto gatekeeper to space. While China is still ...

Rocket Lab launched its 40th Electron mission this week and achieved an important milestone in its quest to reuse orbital rockets. As part of the mission, the launch company reused a previously flown ...

LONG BEACH, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Rocket Lab USA, Inc. (Nasdaq: RKLB) (“Rocket Lab” or “the Company”), a global leader in launch services and space systems, today announced it has completed the ...

A groundbreaking nuclear rocket engine that could completely change how we conduct long distance space missions is now under construction. The Pulsar Fusion rocket could more than halve the time it ...

There have been full scale nuclear thermal rocket engines built and tested on the ground since the 1960s. The US had the NERVA project. The attraction is that the ISP would be up to triple the ISP of ...

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Using supersonic shockwaves for combustion, the groundbreaking design could allow aircraft to travel up to six times the speed of sound. Reading time: Reading time 4 minutes Venus Aerospace is a ...

Humans have achieved groundbreaking feats in space exploration, reaching distant stretches of space with missions like Voyager 1. However, none of this would have been possible without rockets.

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 ...

The H3 rocket launched on Sunday at 8:51 p.m. ET from the Tanegashima Space Center, located on a southwestern Japanese island. The rocket’s second-stage engine burn failed to ignite on time, resulting ...