What makes this project stand out is not just the artistic vision, but the materials and technology used to realize it. Unlike previous instances where rockets featured logos, flags, or small graphic ...

In what may be a world first, Venus Aerospace has, for the first time in the US, successfully flown a Rotating Detonation Rocket Engine (RDRE) that uses supersonic explosions to create thrust. Such ...

A new type of rocket engine, one that could power a plane from Los Angeles to Tokyo in just two hours, has eluded scientists for decades. Houston’s Venus Aerospace says it recently solved the puzzle.

A private Chinese firm has successfully launched the world's largest solid-propellant rocket for a second time. The company, Orienspace, launched the gigantic 30-meter Gravity-1 rocket from a barge in ...

Seven years ago, three classmates at the Technical University of Munich believed their student engineering project might hold some promise in the private sector. At the time, Daniel Metzler led a team ...

The first flight of Isar Aerospace's Spectrum rocket ended in dramatic fashion today. Germany-based Isar Aerospace attempted to launch the first orbital rocket from European soil on Sunday morning ...

Space enthusiasts will have to wait awhile longer to see SpaceX attempt the 10th launch of its massive Starship rocket, the largest type of rocket ever built. The company had been targeting a one-hour ...

Welcome to Edition 8.02 of the Rocket Report! It’s worth taking a moment to recognize an important anniversary in the history of human spaceflight next week. Fifty years ago, on July 15, 1975, NASA ...

Starship is the centerpiece of Musk's vision of sending the first humans to Mars, and is also critical in NASA's plans to return astronauts to the moon's surface for the first time in five decades.

On Oct. 6, the German Aerospace Center (DLR, Braunschweig) launched a 13.5-meter-long research rocket for the Advanced Technologies for High Energetic Atmospheric Flight of Launcher Stages (ATHEAt) ...