This weekly newsletter on rockets provides definitive coverage of the global launch industry. The big news this week is the New Glenn and Starship missions.

A laboratory prototype of a plasma electric rocket engine based on a magnetic plasma accelerator has been produced by Rosatom scientists, who say it could slash travel time to Mars to one or two ...

The tests involved two 120-tonne liquid oxygen-kerosene rocket engines and one 18-tonne liquid oxygen-kerosene rocket engine. The institute noted that this marks a major advancement in the country ...

Here’s how it works. Rocket Lab launched five "Internet of Things" satellites on Saturday (Feb. 8). A 59-foot-tall (18 meters) Electron rocket carrying five spacecraft for the French company ...

Since then all the advances have been in making rockets larger and more efficient through innovations peripheral to the rocket engine itself. There are alternatives to chemical rockets ...

Rocket Lab launched 16 rockets in 2024, 60% more than the 10 it launched in 2023. Rival SpaceX launched far more rockets -- 138 -- but its growth rate from 2023 was slower. Fully-loaded Rocket Lab ...

The company is now focused on building the RFA ONE rocket's first stage with nine Helix staged-combustion engines, and then conducting a full hot fire test on the launch pad at SaxaVord Spaceport ...

SEATTLE, Feb 7 (Reuters) - Boeing (BA.N), opens new tab warned on Saturday of layoffs in its Space Launch System moon rocket program, saying it expects to have about 400 fewer positions in line ...

While the midair explosion of the SpaceX's Starship rocket made for an unsuccessful flight test it also made for an unforgettable optical experience in the Caribbean. The launch marked the seventh ...

At 2:03 a.m. Eastern time, seven powerful engines ignited at the base of a 320-foot-tall rocket named New Glenn. The flames illuminated night into day at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida.