One of the most expensive parts of any rocket launch is getting the rocket off the ground and into space. This part of the mission takes a massive amount of fuel and money to pull off. That's why ...

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 ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla — The lunar lander built in Pittsburgh is still operating after a propellant leak started when the spacecraft separated from a rocket Monday, but the company that built it says ...

Fuelling of the Jules Verne Automated Transfer Vehicle has started at Europe’s Spaceport. ATV is being loaded with Russian refuelling propellant destined for the International Space Station. After a ...

Astrobotic’s Peregrine lander is shown during last month’s preparations for launch. (ULA Photo) Astrobotic says that it’s given up on its plan to put a commercial spacecraft safely on the moon’s ...

Composite propellant combustion represents a critical area of research, combining the complexities of chemical kinetics, fluid dynamics, and material science to understand and predict the performance ...

The Russian Progress 95 craft has docked to the International Space Station (ISS), providing much-needed sustenance such as ...

Click to open image viewer. Cylindrical, cutaway, with tapering in back to accommodate the internal, cup-shaped nozzle. Inside reveals two separate propellant (fuel and oxidizer) tanks, the first, ...

The Starship upper stage exploded eight minutes into the second test flight of the revolutionary rocket, but the cause wasn't disclosed until now. Reading time 4 minutes Elon Musk recently revealed ...

WASHINGTON — NASA and the Air Force Office of Scientific Research, or AFOSR, have successfully launched a small rocket using an environmentally-friendly, safe propellant comprised of aluminum powder ...