The engines powering a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket's first stage, a well-traveled booster attempting a record fifth flight in a mission to launch 60 Starlink internet satellites, roared to life and then ...

The European Space Agency (ESA) has awarded the Carinthian research centre CTR in cooperation with the German-French company Airbus Safran Launchers GmbH the contract to further develop CTR’s HiPoLas® ...

A Rocket Lab electron lifts off May 15 from the company’s New Zealand launch site. The launch failed minutes later when the second stage’s engine appeared to shut down seconds after ignition. Credit: ...

Rocket Lab has modified the design and manufacture of the igniter for its Rutherford engine after a fault in this system was identified as the root cause of the company’s Electron launch vehicle ...

There are few situations more terrifying than the idea of being inside a spacecraft when something goes wrong. Space is ...

Rocket design is one of the most exciting yet complex areas of engineering. It offers a completely different perspective on ...

Japan's space agency intentionally destroyed a new H3 rocket minutes after its launch Tuesday because the ignition failed for the second stage of the country's first new rocket series in more than two ...

Vulcan, United Launch Alliance's (ULA) new heavy-lift rocket, was not the result of having to flee an exploding planet, being exposed to gamma rays or even surviving the bite of a radioactive spider, ...