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 ...

The smell of melting plastic filled the work area of a local space company early one morning. It was the smell of recycled plastic beads being converted into solid rocket fuel grains. This is not your ...

If SpaceX is going to fly Starships as often as it wants to, it’s going to take more than rockets and launch pads. First, there’s the sprawling factory that SpaceX has constructed at its Starbase ...

Benjamin L. Emerson is affiliated with the Georgia Institute of Technology. Benjamin Emerson teaches rocketry-related courses and manages combustion research projects at Georgia Tech. Curious Kids is ...

Originally written at Westcott near Aylesbury, July 1950.

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 ...

Rheinmetall and Pirochim Victoria said they will invest over 500 million euros ($576.9 million) in a new propellant powder plant in Romania. The German arms maker and the Romanian defense company ...