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After a successful engine burn test in October, Maine-based bluShift Aerospace is planning for its next big milestone: a suborbital flight test toward the end of 2025. The rocket company ...

Early on Thursday morning, a Saturn V-sized rocket ignited its seven main engines, a prelude to lifting off from Earth. But then, the New Glenn rocket didn't move. And still, the engines produced ...

The Xuanniao-1 (Black Bird-1) will use nine Canglong-1 methane-liquid oxygen engines developed by Beijing Aerospace Propulsion Technology Co. Ltd., a commercial rocket engine maker founded in 2018.

At 2:03 a.m. Eastern time, seven powerful engines ignited at the base of a 320-foot-tall rocket named New Glenn. The flames illuminated night into day at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida.

What a way to kick off the work week: A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will carry Starlink internet-beaming satellites into low-Earth orbit from Kennedy Space Center, a Federal Aviation Administration ...

But the company failed to land New Glenn's main rocket engine, or booster, onto a platform in the Atlantic Ocean. It had hoped that the booster would be reusable for future launches but after ...

Elvis Presley earns his second No. 1 on Billboard's Top Rock Albums chart as The Classic Christmas ... [+] Album finally hits the top spot years after its release. BURBANK, CA - JUNE 27 ...

Rocket engine propellant — used for missiles and space rockets alike — is currently made using a process known as casting and curing, which can take as long as two months to produce ...

Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin rocket, the New Glenn, lifted off successfully from Florida early Thursday after it’s first launch attempt was scrubbed Wednesday. This flight is Bezos' attempt to get ...

The seven-engine, 320-foot New Glenn rocket — named for late astronaut John Glenn, the first American to orbit the planet — blasted off a NASA launch pad in Florida on its first test flight ...

All seven main engines fired at liftoff as the rocket blazed through the predawn sky to the delight of spectators lining nearby beaches. Bezos took part in the action from Mission Control and Blue ...