Northrop Grumman on Thursday conducted a static fire test of the latest solid rocket motor designed and developed in 12 ...

SpaceX just fired up its newest Starship spacecraft on Thursday (July 31), to help prep the vehicle for an upcoming test flight. The company conducted a "static fire" trial with the 171-foot-tall (52 ...

Highly Loaded Grain (HLG) 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, ...

Static fire test of the Long March 12B rocket at the Dongfeng Commercial Space Innovation Test Zone at Jiuquan spaceport, Jan. 16, 2026. Credit: CASC HELSINKI — China’s main space contractor performed ...

Following the energetic RUD of Ship 36 at Massey’s on June 18, teams at the launch site focused on modifying the Pad 1 Orbital Launch Mount (OLM) to facilitate ship testing. This creative initiative ...

Something went wrong during Starship’s static fire test of Ship 35. In this video, we break down what happened, what a static ...

A SpaceX rocket exploded late Wednesday during a static fire test, which the company attributed to “a major anomaly.” “On Wednesday, June 18 at approximately 11 p.m. CT, the Starship preparing for the ...

Overseen by the 717th Test Squadron and the Arnold Engineering Development Test Complex, the ground-based fire of the Sentinel’s second stage rocket motor was “conducted in a vacuum chamber to ...