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 ...

Ukraine’s Fire Point is building a Denmark rocket fuel plant designed to support more than 4,000 missiles a year, with production due in 2027.

The reason an American Patriot missile interceptor takes roughly 30 months to produce has almost nothing to do with metal or machining. It has everything to do with chemistry. The fuel inside the ...

China’s Beihang University and Benyi Space flew their sounding rocket to 17,310 feet, erasing a 17-year-old Purdue benchmark by a factor of 13. The fuel’s ingredients - aluminum and water ice - exist ...

WASHINGTON — The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency awarded Voyager Technologies a $16.5 million contract to continue development of a solid rocket motor thrust-control technology designed to ...

A rocket’s cluster of engines firing in flight produces a bright-purple exhaust plume and thick golden smoke against a sunset sky over the ocean. Humans can leave Earth on rockets powered by chemical ...