A description from the European Space Agency (ESA) explains that the Ariane 5 rocket fairing was required to protect against aerodynamic, thermal and acoustic phenomena during launch. Around three ...

SSTO does away with the rocket stages of conventional space flight — where rockets containing engines and fuel and are dropped during ascent to shed weight — instead favoring a fully reusable ...

In downtown Huntsville on Friday night there was light everywhere. From the setting sun to the neon signs, the streets were ...

With commercialization trends in space and a growing number of small satellite launches, there are significant opportunities ahead for Rocket Lab to capitalize. For Rocket Lab, scaling up its ...

Rocket Lab aborted a launch at the last second today (Sept. 18). The company's Electron rocket was scheduled to launch five ...

A new rocket thruster could enable "never-ending" voyages into deep space by using any type of metal as fuel. A team at the University of Southampton is testing a new propulsion system which would ...

WELLINGTON, Sept 19 (Reuters) - Rocket Lab (RKLB.O), opens new tab said on Thursday that the scheduled launch of its Electron rocket into space from a facility in New Zealand was aborted just ...

WASHINGTON — Evolution Space, a Mojave, California-based startup, announced Sept. 3 it successfully flew a sub-scale test rocket from a sea-based platform operated by The Spaceport Company.

Manufactured by the ArianeGroup, a French spacecraft engineering company, the Ariane 5 is the preferred chariot to the stars of the European Space Agency. For the past 20 years, the rocket has ...

Upon returning home, he posted photos of the debris on the subreddit r/space, "thinking it was part of a rocket." When he woke up the next morning, Irmen realized the post had blown up.

In the 1990s, NASA designed an experimental space plane meant to be a cost-effective alternative to expensive rockets. Called the X-33, it was based on a concept called SSTO — or “single stage to ...