For as long as rockets have existed, motion in space has come with a brutal tradeoff. To move forward, you throw mass ...

Discovering a machine that could somehow produce thrust without releasing propellant would be a game-changer for human space travel. There’s just one problem—such a device would defy the laws of ...

The test missile demonstrated a flawless booster‑to‑ramjet handoff in a L3Harris’ specialized high-speed-air-breathing ...

Tom Mueller built the rocket engines that gave Elon Musk outer space. Now, he's racing to create a fleet of cabs for the ...

NASA’s Space Launch System rocket will have more than 8 million pounds of thrust, equal to the horsepower produced in 160,000 Corvette engines, and launch 70 metric tons into space. And that’s just ...

WASHINGTON — Orion Propulsion Inc., a Huntsville, Ala.-based company founded nearly five years ago by the lead propulsion engineer for the Ansari X Prize-winning SpaceShipOne suborbital space plane, ...

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A team of researchers at MIT has demonstrated a propulsion technology that could dramatically expand the capabilities of ...

How did you get your job? I was offered my position at the BEYA (Black Engineer of the Year Awards) Conference. What was your greatest fear going into your first job and how did you face it or ...

John Bucknell was Senior Propulsion Engineer for the Raptor full-flow staged combustion methalox rocket at Spacex and is currently the Senior Propulsion Scientist for Divergent3D in Torrance, CA ...

This new propulsion system could rewrite the rules of spaceflight—not to mention completely defy conventional physics.