The academy said in a news release that a new ignition testing facility has been put to use in Tongchuan, Shaanxi province, ...

LEAP 71 has produced a 2000 kN (2 Meganewton) full-flow staged combustion rocket engine injector head with Nikon SLM ...

GE Aerospace and Kratos have successfully completed high-altitude tests of their GEK800 turbofan, designed to power low-cost ...

SpaceX's Starship Version 2 (V2) successfully completed its 11th and final test flight, achieving reentry and splashdown, and providing critical data after a series of earlier developmental challenges ...

Coming off a successful flight test in August, SpaceX will try to continue Starship's redemption story with its next launch. This time, Elon Musk's space company will attempt a new landing strategy ...

Welcome to Edition 8.13 of the Rocket Report! It’s difficult for me to believe, but we have now entered the fourth quarter of the year. Accordingly, there are three months left in 2025, with a lot of ...

The first stage of Firefly Aerospace's 96-foot-tall Alpha rocket exploded while the spacecraft was vertical on a test stand in Briggs, Texas. Firefly made a name for itself in 2025 when its Blue Ghost ...

BRIGGS, Texas — Crews in Texas are picking up the pieces after a rocket exploded during a pre-flight test. Firefly Aerospace said an explosion happened on its test stand in Briggs, Texas. The ...

The booster stage for Firefly Aerospace’s next Alpha rocket was destroyed Monday in a fiery accident on the company’s vertical test stand in Central Texas. Engineers were testing the rocket before ...

"The company is assessing the impact to its stage test stand, and no other facilities were impacted." We'll likely have to wait a while to see Firefly Aerospace's Alpha rocket take to the skies again.

Using supersonic shockwaves for combustion, the groundbreaking design could allow aircraft to travel up to six times the speed of sound. Reading time: Reading time 4 minutes Venus Aerospace is a ...