REDSTONE ARSENAL, Ala. (June 23, 2016) -- The U.S. Army Aviation and Missile Research, Development and Engineering Center is working with the missile community to remanufacture used rocket igniters to ...

The engines powering a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket's first stage, a well-traveled booster attempting a record fifth flight in a mission to launch 60 Starlink internet satellites, roared to life and then ...

Japan’s space agency has intentionally destroyed a new H3 rocket minutes after its launch because the ignition failed for the second stage of the country’s first new rocket series in more than two ...

The European Space Agency (ESA) has awarded the Carinthian research centre CTR in cooperation with the German-French company Airbus Safran Launchers GmbH the contract to further develop CTR’s HiPoLas® ...

Vulcan, United Launch Alliance's (ULA) new heavy-lift rocket, was not the result of having to flee an exploding planet, being exposed to gamma rays or even surviving the bite of a radioactive spider, ...

XCOR Aerospace continued the EZ-Rocket test program today with a test flight demonstrating shut down and restart of the rocket engines during the flight. The 6 minute 57 second flight took place at ...

A new ignition testing facility in Tongchuan, Shaanxi province, conducts a successful test on Monday. [Photo/China Daily] China has big plans to advance its space exploration and development, but ...

China's largest solid-fuel rocket motor goes through test ignition on August 2, 2016, in the northwest city of Xi'an. China has completed the test ignition of its largest solid-fuel rocket motor in ...

Rockets are conceptually rather simple: you put the pointy bit upwards and make sure that the bit that will go flamey points downwards before starting the engine(s). Yet how to start each rocket ...