A private Chinese firm has successfully launched the world's largest solid-propellant rocket for a second time. The company, Orienspace, launched the gigantic 30-meter Gravity-1 rocket from a barge in ...
PROMONTORY — Despite an explosion that led to the total loss of a building at the Northrop Grumman complex near Promontory last week, the company said work on solid rocket motor projects will not be ...
The specifications of its overall weight and carrying capacity mean that Gravity 1 is now the world's mightiest solid-fueled ...
ISP is a rapidly growing provider of small-diameter energetic and propulsion technologies, with more than 40 years of flight-proven expertise in the design, testing and manufacturing of tactical boost ...
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Who invented the modern rocket engine?

Modern spaceflight rests on a deceptively simple idea: a machine that carries its own fuel and oxidizer, then hurls exhaust backward fast enough to push itself forward. The person who first turned ...
WASHINGTON — The Pentagon on Sept. 26 announced three contracts aimed at beefing up U.S. production of solid rocket motors (SRMs), a part of the defense industrial base officials say is vulnerable to ...