NASA is getting ready to launch its massive, fully expendable rocket for the first crewed flight to the Moon since Apollo.

Automatic engine stop‑start was sold as a painless way to cut emissions and fuel bills, a tiny software trick that would shut ...

Japan’s H3 rocket suffered engine trouble on December 22, 2025, and failed to place a Japanese navigation satellite into ...

An RS-25 engine fired up for 500 seconds June 11 at NASA’s Stennis Space Center near Bay St. Louis, Mississippi. Four RS-25 engines will power NASA’s new rocket, the Space Launch System, at speeds of ...

UPDATE, 5 PM: Another consequence of last night's engine failure has turned up: Quietly sharing the ride as a secondary payload was a prototype communications satellite from a company called ORBCOMM.

As the SpaceX webcast announcer counted down the final 10 seconds of Friday's Falcon 9 launch attempt, he said "ignition" when the clock struck zero. And fast-moving fumes and smoke billowed from ...

SACRAMENTO, Calif., March 15, 2010 – Aerojet, a GenCorp (NYSE: GY) company, and Orbital Sciences Corporation (NYSE: ORB), along with Aerojet’s Russian partner, SNTK, announced today that a series of ...