Ursa Major developed and tested a 6-inch diameter composite grain pathfinder motor. Credit: Ursa Major WASHINGTON — Rocket engine startup Ursa Major is targeting the solid rocket motors market, the ...

A private Chinese firm has successfully launched the world's largest solid-propellant rocket for a second time. The company, Orienspace, launched the gigantic 30-meter Gravity-1 rocket from a barge in ...

A prototype of the P80 rocket motor, which will power the first stage of ESA’s new small launcher – Vega, was successfully tested on 4 December at the Guiana Space Centre, Europe’s Spaceport in Kourou ...

Anduril is developing the Alitec solid rocket propellant to enhance tactical missile performance. Above, Anduril test-fires its Denali 18 inch hypersonic rocket booster at its McHenry, Mississippi, ...

North Korea tested a new high-thrust solid-fuel missile engine, signaling progress toward faster, harder-to-detect ICBMs.

The smell of melting plastic filled the work area of a local space company early one morning. It was the smell of recycled plastic beads being converted into solid rocket fuel grains. This is not your ...

SEOUL, South Korea — North Korea said Tuesday it had conducted the final ground test of a solid-fuel rocket engine for a long-range ballistic missile in its latest advancement toward having an arsenal ...

Classification -- Definitions and fundamentals -- Nozzle theory and thermodynamic relations -- Flight performance -- Chemical rocket propellant performance analysis -- Liquid propellant rocket engine ...

When most people think of rockets, they likely imagine something like SpaceX's Raptor engine, or they might recall the Apollo 11 Saturn V rocket that took astronauts to the Moon. Rockets aren't ...