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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

With an Air Force development contract secured for the OmegA rocket, Northrop Grumman Innovation Systems has provided NASASpaceflight with an update on their primarily solid rocket fueled medium ...

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 ...

Billionaire Elon Musk took a wild gamble backing Donald Trump's White House candidacy, but the bet has paid off -- at least ...