The aerospike has been considered as a replacement for the bell-shaped nozzle rocket engine for nearly 70 years. The ...

NASA's Reactive Additive Manufacturing for the Fourth Industrial Revolution (RAMFIRE) project test-fired a 3D-printed engine nozzle at Marshall Space Flight Center in Alabama. See the test in ...

China has test fired a huge new solid rocket motor, creating more propulsion options for the country’s growing space activities. The rocket motor was ignited Tuesday (Oct. 19) at a site near Xi ...

Still, Isar became the first in a new crop of European launch startups to launch a rocket theoretically capable of reaching ...

800-pound, Class 1.1 solid rocket motor. In January 2003, Technology Review–published by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)– for the third consecutive year ranked Lockheed Martin ...

While NASA’s Artemis program may ultimately abandon the Space Launch System rocket, for now, Melbourne-based L3Harris is ...

According to NASA, this proves "the nozzle can survive the thermal, structural, and pressure loads for a lunar lander scale engine." Not only is the tech operationally sound, but it's a lot easier ...

An overheated rocket engine nozzle caused last year’s Blue Origin launch failure that has grounded flights for six months, the company said Friday. Jeff Bezos' rocket company Blue Origin said it ...

For instance, for the rocket we're discussing now, Northrop used additive manufacturing (which is the fancy, new, and fashionable way of saying 3D printing) for the motor's nozzle structure.

SpaceX has offered holiday greetings via a spot of synchronized rocket-engine nozzle steering. The quirky 65-second video — which includes the message: “Wishing you a warm holiday season and a ...

Structural failure of the nozzle at the base of a rocket engine powering an un-piloted New Shepard spacecraft toward the edge of space in September of 2022 triggered a dramatic-but-safe in-flight ...

GET IT ON G E T I T O N In this image from video made available by Blue Origin, the New Shepard rocket lifts off from the company’s West Texas site on Sept. 12, 2022. An overheated rocket engine ...