NASA and SpaceX have delayed the launch of a Cargo Dragon spacecraft for at least a couple of weeks due to an issue during the prelaunch loading of hypergolic propellants. The space agency had been ...

A cargo Dragon spacecraft docked to the International Space Station earlier this year, with several of its Draco thrusters visible. Credit: NASA WASHINGTON — NASA and SpaceX have postponed the launch ...

THOUSAND OAKS, Calif., July 22, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Frontier Aerospace, a leader in next-generation liquid rocket propulsion, today announced the successful first hot-fire of its new hypergolic ...

In a conflict that is marked by precision bombing and information war, the revelation of the Chemical Automatics Design Bureau’s coordinates to Ukrainian forces is a dramatic example of modern ...

During the Apollo era, NASA astronauts relied on a rocket tower at the top of the capsule to pull them safely away in case of an emergency. If it wasn’t used, the tower was jettisoned after the Saturn ...

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A few hours after a successful liftoff on United Launch Alliance's Vulcan rocket, Astrobotic's first commercial lunar lander ran into serious trouble. The robotic Peregrine lander, still in orbit ...

ABERDEEN PROVING GROUND, Md. (Aug. 5, 2013) -- A team of Army researchers developed a new gel-propellant engine called the vortex engine. Michael Nusca, Ph.D., Robert Michaels and Nathan Mathis were ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. More than 200 years after Alessandro Volta invented the first battery, scientists at the Purdue Research Park are developing "batteries" that may someday power entire households ...

Chicago drivers were girding this week for yet more delays from the seemingly endless Kennedy Expressway construction project, after the briefest of winter pauses. But for a little perspective as you ...