Launch service provider Rocket Factory Augsburg AG has successfully tested its entire engine with staged combustion over eight seconds. The test, which was conducted in Kiruna, Sweden, represents another important […]
Engines / Thrusters
Ad Astra’s VASIMR Plasma Rocket Champions High Power Endurance Test
Ad Astra Rocket Company’s VASIMR® VX-200SS Plasma Rocket has completed 88 hours of continuous operation at 80 kW at the company’s Texas laboratory near Houston. In doing so, the company […]
Ad Astra’s Plasma Rocket Engine Sets Duration/High-Power Firing Time Record
Ad Astra Rocket Company broken a major record for long-duration/high-power firing of the firm’s VASIMR® VX-200SS plasma engine — in doing so, the firm has further advanced the technology of […]
Pay As-You-Go Propulsion Service From Benchmark Space Systems Unlocks OSAM Innovations
Benchmark Space Systems has announced an in-space mobility service that virtually eliminates upfront propulsion equipment costs and boosts on-orbit, servicing, assembly and manufacturing (OSAM) mission revenues by allowing satellite operators […]
Rocket Factory Augsburg (RFA): Successful Tests Of Their Full-Scale, Staged-Combustion Engine
Launch service provider Rocket Factory Augsburg (RFA) has announced their successful firing-tests of the company’s full-scale, staged combustion engine. During the 2 second test, which was carried out in Kiruna […]
Infusion Of Millions$$$ By Relativity Space To Scale Terran R Rocket Production
Relativity Space, the first company to 3D print an entire rocket and build the largest metal 3D printers in the world, has closed a $650 million Series E equity funding […]
Emerson Sponsors Texas Rocket Engineering Laboratory @ The University of Texas
Emerson is sponsoring the Texas Rocket Engineering Laboratory (TREL) in the Cockrell School of Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin) — the company will donate TESCOM™ […]
Northrop Grumman’s New Era of Exploration: How It Is Powering NASA’s Artemis Missions
“These are the most powerful human-rated rocket motors ever produced for flight. The objectives of this program exceed that of the shuttle so our new five-segment booster configuration was designed […]
NanoAvionics Reveals Their Growth + Biz Development Plans
NanoAvionics has laid out its ambitious growth and business development plans for the USA via its existing facility in Columbia, Illinois. The smallsat bus manufacturer and mission integrator will develop […]
Dawn Aerospace Secures Funding
Dawn Aerospace, a New Zealand/Dutch aerospace company, has announced significant backing from New Zealand’s largest tech investment firm, Movac. Dawn is creating next-generation space transportation technologies. This investment will be […]