Astrobotic put its Chakram rotating detonation rocket engine (RDRE) through its paces for the first time. During the tests, which took place at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC) in Huntsville ...

The company said its AVac engine delivers 1.2 times the thrust of the first-stage version and uses a taller vacuum-optimized nozzle.

Space startup Astrobotic put its rotating detonation rocket engine (RDRE) to the test for the first time, demonstrating a potentially groundbreaking technology that generates thrust by supersonic ...

India has taken a massive leap in its journey to conquer the stars. The Indian Space Research Organisation (Isro) successfully conducted a high-power test of the CE20 cryogenic engine, at the Isro ...

A new generation of space rockets is inching closer to launch. Private space company Astrobotic recently revealed it carried out a successful test of two of its rotating detonation rocket engines ...

Chinese commercial space company CAS Space has successfully completed a long-duration qualification test for the Kinecore-2, a 110-ton-thrust liquid oxygen/kerosene engine designed to power the ...

If we really are to fulfill all our dreams of expanding our reach into the solar system, we definitely must come up with new rocket engine technologies for our spaceships. The industry knows this, and ...

UK-based Pulsar Fusion announced it has successfully achieved first plasma in its Sunbird nuclear fusion rocket exhaust system. The demonstration, a world’s first for a rocket of this type, was ...

Framegrab from a video of a long-duration hot fire of the Chi engine. Credit: Mega Engine HELSINKI — A new Chinese commercial rocket engine startup has conducted a successful long-duration hot fire ...