Russia's State Atomic Energy Corporation, Rosatom, recently developed a new spacecraft engine with impressive specifications.

The UK's new spaceport in Shetland will be ready for satellite launches by July, MPs have been told. A number of companies ...

One of the key questions about Blue Origin is whether it will push toward full reusability with New Glenn. In 2021, Ars first ...

A laboratory prototype of a plasma electric rocket engine based on a magnetic plasma accelerator has been produced by Rosatom ...

Blue Origin made two adjustments in quick succession to its schedule for launching its New Glenn rocket to orbit for the first time.

Since then all the advances have been in making rockets larger and more efficient through innovations peripheral to the rocket engine itself. There are alternatives to chemical rockets ...

German firm Rocket Factory Augsburg (RFA) have been awarded the first Launch Operator Licence allowing it to launch rockets from the SaxaVord Spaceport. The licence, granted by the Civil Aviation ...

Rocket Factory Augsburg has officially received its spaceflight ... Now it will be building the rocket´s first stage with nine Helix staged-combustion engines. It will be conducting a “full hot fire ...

Rocket Factory Augsburg (RFA ... on building the RFA ONE rocket's first stage with nine Helix staged-combustion engines, and then conducting a full hot fire test on the launch pad at SaxaVord ...

German firm Rocket Factory Augsburg (RFA ... Last year, during a test known as a hot-fire, an RFA engine exploded at the SaxaVord site, resulting in a some damage to the launch platform and ...