Europe certifies a new, more powerful space engine called the P160C. It is key to launching stronger rockets from South ...

Watch when SpaceX conducted a static fire test of a single flight 10 Starship engine to simulate an in-space burn. Credit: ...

Almost four months after the American space agency NASA installed the first newly built RS-25 Space Shuttle engine on the Fred Haise Test Stand at the Stennis Space Center in Mississippi, hardware ...

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” for the ...

Now that the Space Shuttle missions are ending, NASA is cleaning house. While complete shuttles are for sale at 50 percent off "retail," the deal of the century must be the free engines. These spare ...

SpaceX test-fired the upper stage of its seventh Starship megarocket again recently, this time practicing for an in-space engine burn. The company ignited all six of the Flight 7 Starship spacecraft's ...

The sixth flight of SpaceX’s giant Starship rocket, set for takeoff on Tuesday from South Texas, will test the vehicle’s limits in new ways. Most importantly, SpaceX will attempt to briefly reignite ...

The Space Shuttle was and forever will be a very special vehicle in the history of space exploration. Over the course of three decades starting in 1981, the small fleet of spaceplanes took to the sky ...

Showing how far AI engineering has come, a new aerospike engine burning oxygen and kerosene capable of 1,100 lb (5,000 N) of thrust has successfully been hot-fired for 11 seconds. It was designed from ...

Things are getting hot for SpaceX's next Starship launch. SpaceX fired up its next Starship spacecraft during an engine test over the weekend, ahead of the company's 7th orbital test flight of the ...

This second static fire involved a single engine and practiced an in-space maneuver. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. SpaceX ...