Princess of Wales pays tribute in military-style dress coat at Remembrance service Boeing secured its first order after a ...

As the rising sun illuminated clouds in pinkish hues, United Launch Alliance's Vulcan rocket bolted off the pad Friday ...

The pin would hit the primer and ignite the solid rocket fuel. The hammer now does its second job of holding the round in place while thrust builds up. It only takes a few fractions of a second.

The European Space Agency (ESA) faces a crossroads as it works to prepare flights of the Vega-C and Ariane 6 as early as this ...

but there's still a place for solid rocket boosters, too. Liquid-fueled systems keep the fuel and oxidizer in tanks, often cooled to super-low temperatures and stored at high pressure. With a ...

The nozzle fell off one of Vulcan's two solid rocket boosters around 37 seconds after taking off from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station on October 4. There were some indications of a problem with ...

And wonderfully, you can visit. The aptly named Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex is a full museum, with exhibits including a decommissioned Saturn V rocket, tons of memorabilia, and an actual ...

Like the Atlas V, the Vulcan supports optional solid rocket boosters (SRBs) that are attached radially around the first stage. The Vulcan will use larger versions of the GEM-63 SRBs currently ...

See those two big gouts of flame in the photo up above? Those are firing GEM 63XL solid rocket boosters (SRBs), built and supplied to ULA by Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC). They give the Vulcan ...

The Long March 9 super heavy-lift rocket made an appearance at a major airshow recently—and looks awfully familiar.

The Cert-2 launch October 4 overcame an anomaly on one of Vulcan's strap-on solid rocket boosters, which lost its exhaust nozzle but kept firing with degraded thrust. The rocket's twin BE-4 main ...

United Launch Alliance (ULA) will soon close out production of its Atlas V rocket, completing a stock of 15 boosters set to fly on contracted missions. With ULA’s future focus on the Vulcan rocket, ...