The 184-foot-tall (56-meter) rocket lifted off from Kourou, French Guiana, at 11:24 am EST (16:24 UTC). Twin solid-fueled boosters and a hydrogen-fueled core stage engine powered the Ariane 6 through ...

Firefly Aerospace’s robotic vehicle became the second privately built spacecraft to make a soft landing on the moon. It could soon be joined by two more private lunar landers.

On this day in aviation history, February 25, 1941, the massive Messerschmitt Me 321 Gigant (Giant) combat glider made its ...

Above: The laboratory prototype of Rosatom’s new plasma electric rocket engine. The device is based on a magnetic plasma accelerator with increased thrust parameters developed by scientists from the ...

Photo: Stoke Space The first stage of the rocket is designed to use seven liquefied natural gas (LNG) - liquid oxygen (LOX) engines, and to return back to the launch pad after helping its cargo ...

As a result, the speeds you can achieve are limited by the matter flow velocity of your engine. For conventional rockets, the matter flow velocity caps out at about 2.8 miles per second.

There's a 26% annual chance that space rocket junk will re-enter the atmosphere and pass through a busy flight area, according to a UBC study. The study is published in the journal Scientific Reports.

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Rockets, engines and spacecraft. Excitement is in the air, and as you can see so is the Saturn V rocket that took America to the moon, developed right here in the Rocket City in the 1960s.” ...

The Rotating Detonation Engine (RDE) uses supersonic shockwaves to create a more efficient combustion cycle, potentially improving fuel efficiency by 5%—a staggering leap in rocket technology.

and a previous launch was abandoned when unwanted ice formed in some of the rocket engine pipes. Around 13 minutes after liftoff, the rocket’s second stage reached orbit, which has been a goal ...