A rocket engine that helped launch five space shuttle missions has been fired again, to prepare for the first crewed mission onboard NASA's new Space Launch System rocket.

EDMONTON, Alberta, Dec. 16, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) featured Space Engine Systems in its Year-in-Review publication: “Space Engine ...

Flight tests of an engine for the giant space plane Skylon are expected by 2020. The British government and European Space Agency (ESA) are providing $100 million in funding, which will be matched ...

On November 12th, SpaceX test-fired the extremely powerful Raptor engines of its Starship SN20 rocket prototype. As the engines fired up, an incredible image of the eruption of fire and exhaust ...

Stoke Space successfully hotfired its first-stage rocket engine on a new vertical test stand at the company’s Moses Lake, Wash., facility on Wednesday in what was called “a very big deal ...

In total, NASA accumulated an inventory of 16 RS-25D engines from the Shuttle program to support the first four SLS missions. Of these 16 engines, only two have never gone to space.

SpaceX recently chilled and spun the engine pumps on Ship 25, the upper-stage prototype that will make the next Starship test flight.

A British technology start-up that had promised to build the world’s first space plane is in last-ditch talks to secure new financing after two of its backers wrote down the value of their ...