In a tightly controlled manufacturing hangar west of Paris, workers put the finishing touches on an enormous silver-colored engine. In just a few days, a similar machine will help propel the most ...

With the upcoming launch, SpaceX is eager to prove Starship V3’s readiness for more ambitious test flights, including an important orbital refueling experiment considered a stepping stone toward ...

Russian engineers are betting that a radically different rocket engine can compress the long slog to Mars into something closer to an interplanetary commute. Their new plasma propulsion prototype, ...

Rivian engineers and designers say they took customer feedback seriously from the R1S and R1T to make the R2. Among them: two ...

The new year has not started well for China, with two failures among its first six launches. Even so, 2026 is shaping up to ...

Elon Musk’s reveal of the latest Raptor V3 upgrade did more than tweak a rocket engine spec sheet, it effectively redrew the ...

"Understanding how different materials behave as they burn up could help engineers design satellites that fully disintegrate, leaving nothing behind in orbit or in the atmosphere." ...

Scientists used optical diagnostic techniques to 'see inside' solid-fuel ramjets, one of the most extreme engines in the world.

NASA engineers have completed first cold-flow tests of a full-scale nuclear thermal propulsion reactor, validating designs ...

After a full-power ground firing in April, engineers confirmed that a new European rocket engine called the P160C is ready to fly from the continent’s main launch site in South America. The upgraded ...

GE and Lockheed ground tested a new air-breathing hypersonic jet engine capable of powering missiles to speeds well in excess of Mach 5 in a smaller, cheaper, lighter, and more efficient package than ...

MARIETTA, Ga., Jan. 15, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Atomic-6, a leading manufacturer of advanced mobility composites, today announced that Portal Space Systems has selected Space Armor® tiles as the primary ...