In what may be a world first, Venus Aerospace has, for the first time in the US, successfully flown a Rotating Detonation ...

Houston-based startup Venus Aerospace has completed the first-ever test flight of a rotating detonation rocket engine (RDRE) ...

There is a reason building a rocket engine is harder than most things you want to build. If you are building, say, a car, your goal is to not have it explode. If you are building a bomb ...

There is a reason building a rocket engine is harder than most things you want to build. If you are building, say, a car, your goal is to not have it explode. If you are building a bomb ...

For decades, an engine concept known ... the idea as it awards a concept to a start-up busy designing a next-generation spaceplane. Whether the German V-2 rocket, NASA’s legendary Saturn V ...

A closeup of one of the aerospike nozzles used in the Dryden Aerospike Rocket Test. The aerospike engine—specifically the conical aerospike—looks quite similar to a conventional rocket and ...

Olga Ozhogina is a Ukrainian space reporter, journalist and photojournalist. She contributed this article to Space.com's Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights via the press center at Promin Aerospace, a ...

In August, Rocket Lab successfully launched a rocket equipped with eight new engines and one reused one. Sometime soon, the space company could attempt to fly a rocket with entirely recovered ...

On Tuesday, Stoke Space announced the firing of its first stage rocket engine for the first time earlier ... To me, that is the inevitable end state. When you start with that north star, any ...