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NASA fired up RS-25 engine No. 20001 at the Fred Haise Test Stand at NASA’s Stennis Space Center at Bay St. Louis, Mississippi. The test lasted about "eight-and-a-half minutes (500 seconds), the same ...

The Space Launch System rocket's RS-25 engine was fired up for the “final round of certification testing ahead of production ...

NASA’s Space Launch System appears to have a finite shelf life. The Trump administration wants to cancel it after just three launches, while the preliminary text of a bill making its way through ...

HOUSTON — A Houston-based rocket engine company hit a major testing milestone this week on its quest to fly aircraft faster than ever. Venus Aerospace said it has successfully flown its ...

EL PASO, Texas (KFOX14/CBS4) — The Texas Space Commission has awarded Blue Origin a $7 million grant to upgrade its horizontal first-stage booster engine test facility. According to a statement from ...

The United States is preparing to send astronauts around the Moon for the first time in more than half a century, riding a ...

The dramatic explosion of a SpaceX Starship upper stage rocket during a test at the company's Starbase facility on the Texas Gulf coast late Wednesday may have been triggered by the rupture of a ...

Blue Origin has signed a Commercial Space Launch Act agreement with NASA for the use of the historic 4670 test stand at the Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC). Despite setting up its own in-house ...

A SpaceX Starship spacecraft exploded overnight during a rocket engine test in Texas. Video shows a massive fireball as the rocket ignited. The company said the rocket “experienced a major anomaly” ...

SpaceX currently controls nearly every rocket launch on Earth. With 98% of global orbital launches under its belt, Elon Musk's company has become the de facto gatekeeper to space. While China is still ...

There have been published papers by the Air Force Research Lab and NASA on rotating detonation engines having 10% or more efficiency gains. A rotating detonation engine (RDE) uses a form of pressure ...