Confessions Of A ‘60s Amateur Rocketeer—Estes Models, To Be Precise

In the sixties and seventies, space was the rage with Cold War competition to see who would walk on the moon first, the U.S.
Digital Trends

Watch Blue Origin test fire its rocket engines ahead of NASA’s Mars launch

Blue Origin has test fired its New Glenn rocket engine as it makes final preparations for the launch of NASA’s ESCAPADE mission involving twin Mars orbiters. The static test fire of the heavy-lift ...
Aviation Week

NASA Funding Rotating Detonation Rocket Engine Demo In 2026

NASA has contracted Momentus to use its Vigoride orbital service vehicle as a testbed to demonstrate a rotating detonation rocket engine in space in 2026. The rotating detonation rocket engine is ...
BGR

Russia's Rocket Engine Development Is Stuck In A Predicament

Russia has historically been a trailblazer when it comes to space exploration. It was the first to put a human into space in 1961 with Yuri Gagarin. It led the way for the first spacewalk and had the ...
Gizmodo

Gizmodo Science Fair: A Rocket Engine That Turns Controlled Explosions Into Thrust

Using supersonic shockwaves for combustion, the groundbreaking design could allow aircraft to travel up to six times the speed of sound. Reading time: Reading time 4 minutes Venus Aerospace is a ...
PC Gamer

This aerospike rocket engine designed by generative AI just completed its first hot fire test

AI is one of the most misused tools in modern technology, which is why whenever I see it doing something actually useful and cool I like to point at it and loudly scream: "More like this, please!" In ...
TechCrunch

Frontier is helping Arbor build a ‘vegetarian rocket engine’ to power data centers

Frontier, the organization backed by Stripe, Google, and Meta, announced Tuesday it is paying startup Arbor Energy to remove 116,000 tons of carbon dioxide by the end of the decade. The deal gives ...
Gizmodo

Rocket Engines That Flew 22 Space Shuttle Missions Are Ready for NASA’s Next Moon Mission

NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) is ready to fly with its four shuttle-era engines. The rocket, outfitted with the RS-25 engines, recently passed a critical milestone that put the integrated system to ...
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DIY Sugar Rocket Soars 1,000 Feet into the Sky

The science pros at TKOR launch a DIY sugar rocket that soars 1,000 feet into the sky. Mexico President Claudia Sheinbaum tells Trump, "we're no one's piñata" Michelle Obama Opens Up About Why People ...
NextBigFuture

First Flight of Venus Aerospace BREAKTHROUGH Rotating Detonating Engine

Venus Aerospace had the first-ever U.S. flight test of a rotating detonation rocket engine (RDRE)—a next-gen propulsion technology that’s been theorized for decades, but never flown… until now. The ...
BGR

This Company Wants To Use AI To Mass-Produce Rocket Engines

SpaceX currently controls nearly every rocket launch on Earth. With 98% of global orbital launches under its belt, Elon Musk's company has become the de facto gatekeeper to space. While China is still ...