Historically, the Saturn V remains the benchmark of human spaceflight. It’s 7.6 million pounds of thrust and 140-ton LEO ...

SpaceX's Super Heavy Booster boasts significantly higher thrust (17 million pounds) and payload capacity to LEO (over 220,000 pounds) compared to NASA's SLS. SLS is currently operational, while Super ...

NASA's moon megarocket is going to get a heckuva lot… mega-er. Though the U.S. space agency has only completed the crewless Artemis I mission around the moon and back so far, engineers are busy ...

NASA's megarocket is back in its giant garage after completing a mission-critical dress rehearsal at the launchpad for its first voyage to the moon.. Credit: NASA/Maddison Tuttle NASA's megarocket is ...

Solid Rocket Motors allow extended range and customized thrust profiles with the same propellant and the same size rocket motor. Anduril and Raytheon announced on Oct. 7, 2025 they conducted a static ...

China has completed a first hot fire test of a fully-assembled powerful new engine that could power new launch vehicles and boost the country's space capabilities. The full system test of the ...

Bigger than the Statue of Liberty, the SpaceX vehicle is central to NASA’s plans to get to the moon and Elon Musk’s dreams of the red planet. By Kenneth Chang For Elon Musk, Starship is really a Mars ...

When the exhaust nozzle on one of the Vulcan rocket's strap-on boosters failed shortly after liftoff earlier this month, it scattered debris across the beachfront landscape just east of the launch pad ...