Another update from Firefly early Tuesday afternoon confirmed the launch failed. The company said the rocket "experienced a ...

WASHINGTON — Rocket propulsion startup Ursa Major Technologies has secured a $28.5 million contract from the U.S. Air Force ...

LEAP 71 has announced that it is working to scale its computational engineering methodology to develop meganewton-class ...

Far from the most dangerous point in the launch, the Firefly rocket's separation caused it to miss its orbital insertion.

That said, rocket engines are unconventional and vastly different ... The reaction force, also known as thrust, is commonly measured in pounds or newtons in scientific terms.

When a $500 million rocket bursts into flames, you’d expect a crazy technical glitch. The Starship explosion during Flight 7 ...

When the gun sounds, their 1,500-pound-thrust rocket engines ignite ... XR-4K14 cannot suffer what’s known as a hard start, an explosion in the combustion chamber instead of a controlled ...

For a launch vehicle to take off, it needs thrust. A rocket engine generates thrust by ejecting hot combustion gases very quickly through the nozzle (conservation of momentum). Chemical propulsion ...

SpaceX’s Starship had its eighth test flight Thursday evening, but ended in an explosion ... the initial thrust, had ...

Northrop Grumman's Utah facility manufactures and tests solid rocket engines, like those used to launch NASA's Space Launch ...

LEAP 71 scales computational rocket engine development - advancing the Noyron XRA-2E5 aerospike and the Noyron XRB-2E6 ...