Gilmour Space Technologies completed a successful hotfire of the world’s largest, single-port, hybrid rocket engine. Gilmour Space continues to demonstrate key sovereign space and industry capabilities as it prepares to […]
Engines / Thrusters
Iodine Propulsion Proven Viable For Smallsats In Space By ThrustMe + Spacety
The space industry seeks new solutions to ensure economic and environmental space sustainability with the rise of satellite mega-constellations. A solution lies in the use of on-orbit propulsion, but traditional […]
ArianeGroup + CNES Sign Agreement For Testing Of ESA’s Prometheus Rocket Engine
Following the visit to the ArianeGroup (formerly Airbus Safran Launchers) site in Vernon by the President of the French Republic Emmanuel Macron, Minister of the Economy and Finance Bruno Le […]
UPDATE: Blue Origin’s New Shepard Launch Is Successful
Blue Origin successfully completed its 14th mission to space and back on January 14, 2021, for the New Shepard program. Mission NS-14 featured a crew capsule outfitted with astronaut experience […]
Space Mobility On-Orbit Demo Success By Exotrail
Exotrail reports the full success of the first-ever cubesat mission equipped with Hall-effect electric propulsion technology. Through an In-Orbit Demonstration mission launched to LEO on November 7, 2020, onboard a […]
Four Aerojet Rocketdyne Engines Will Hot Fire In Unison For The First Time For NASA’s SLS Test Series
Four Aerojet Rocketdyne RS-25 engines are being targeted to hot fire in unison for the first time on January 17 as part of NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) Green Run […]
Iodine Electric Propulsion To Become A Critical Subsystem For SAR Constellations
ThrustMe and Spacety have announced a new space launch, the 3rd in an ongoing series — this time, Spacety launched their Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) satellite, Hisea-1, which is the […]
Skyrora Completes Successful Test Firings Of Their LEO Engine
Skyrora has conducted a series of static test fires of their 3rd stage LEO engine, including a vacuum chamber test, designed to replicate space-like conditions to further advance its launch ambitions. […]
Apollo Fusion’s Electric Propulsion System To Empower Spaceflight’s OTVs
Apollo Fusion, Inc. has been selected as the electric propulsion system for Spaceflight Inc.’s Sherpa-LTE. The Sherpa-LTE is a high specific impulse (Isp), xenon propellant, electric propulsion orbital transfer vehicle […]
ArianeGroup Reports Successful Vinci + Vulcain 2.1 Rocket Engine Qualifications
The three engines for Europe’s new Ariane 6 launcher have now completed their qualification tests, following the successful qualification testing of the P120C solid propulsion engine on October 7 at […]