The Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) has awarded Firefly Aerospace a contract to develop a ceramic matrix composite ...

The company did not disclose how much the contract was for, but said it plans to use the technology on several of its rockets.

DARPA Proposes Generic Solid Rocket Motor For Mass Production is published in Aerospace Daily & Defense Report, an Aviation ...

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifted off from NASA's Kennedy Space Center on Saturday (April 12), carrying 21 Starlink satellites ...

That said, rocket engines are unconventional and vastly different from the airplane, car, and other common engines. While rockets also combust fuel to move like other engines, there is a ...

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 ...

A rocket launched from NASA's Kennedy Space Center or Cape Canaveral, Florida, can be seen as far as Myrtle Beach or Philadelphia. People in Georgia, South Carolina, Tennessee and Alabama have ...

Recently, companies like Rocket Lab have made a notable breakthrough in the realm of 3D-printed rocket engines, which drastically shorten production times and lower costs without sacrificing ...

A Japanese space startup is buying US-made rocket engines for use with its small, reusable launch vehicles in a bid to bridge the gap between the country’s large-scale satellite production and ...

The US subsidiary of Japan’s Innovative Space Carrier, Sirius Technologies, has agreed to purchase 10 engines from Ursa Major Technologies, a Colorado-based company founded by a former SpaceX and Blue ...

The booster performed a landing burn using three of its nine Merlin rocket engines, touching down on SpaceX's "Of Course I Still Love You" droneship in the Pacific Ocean. A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket ...