The Falcon 1 made history on September 28, 2008 by becoming the "first privately developed liquid fuel rocket to reach Earth ...

Go back a generation of development, and excepting the shuttle-derived systems, all liquid rockets used RP-1 (aka kerosene) for their first stage. Now it seems everybody and their dog wants to fuel ...

Chinese aerospace company Orienspace is now two for two when it comes to launching the largest solid-propellant rocket in the world, the Gravity-1.

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Isro prepares for a landmark launch as its most powerful rocket gears up to lift the nation's heaviest communication satellite yet ...

The rocket, a reaction-propulsion device that carries all of its propellants internally, has been around for almost a millennium since its invention in China. But the twentieth-century saw a ...

The inventor’s handmade tools are now museum artifacts. Colleen Anderson Robert Goddard, an American physicist and inventor, built many of his early rockets at his workshop in Roswell, New Mexico.

SpaceX has performed a “wet dress rehearsal” of its Starship rocket ahead of the next major test flight of the Mars-bound spacecraft. The rocket and its booster were filled with liquid oxygen and ...

SEOUL (Reuters) -North Korea's latest satellite launch exploded in a fireball before dropping into the Yellow Sea just minutes after lifting off, but analysts say the attempt showcased new strides in ...

Solid-fuel rockets are the dream weapons of military rocketeers. They have no pumps or valves to go wrong and are always ready to fire. Their big trouble is that they are harder to control than liquid ...