Northrop Grumman Corporation and NASA successfully conducted a full-scale static fire of NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) rocket motor, known as Flight Support Booster-2. The five-segment solid rocket ...

Northrop Grumman conducts a static test of its OmegA rocket in Utah Feb. 27. (Northrop Grumman image) Northrop Grumman conducted a static test of their new OmegA rocket at their facility in Promontory ...

SpaceX is making progress toward the first orbital launch of its Starship launch vehicle, as the company recently conducted a successful static fire test. SpaceX took to its Twitter account to ...

SpaceX moved a step closer to launching another Starship with a successful test of its powerful engines. The Elon Musk-led company completed a static test Friday of its Super Heavy Booster No. 9 at ...

When it comes to rockets, a “static-fire engine test,” by definition, means that the rocket should remain on the ground and not move. But during such a test in China on Sunday, that clearly didn’t ...

U.K.-based launch company Skyrora hit a new milestone in the development of its Skyrora XL rocket with the completion of a static fire test of the second stage. The single engine, designed and ...

The two BE-4 engines in the Vulcan Centaur booster fire for several seconds during a static-fire test June 7. Credit: ULA webcast WASHINGTON — United Launch Alliance carried out a static-fire test of ...

An earlier test of the same booster in July resulted in a giant fireball that sent the prototype back to the factory for repairs. Reading time 3 minutes Engineers at SpaceX have performed the first ...

SpaceX performed a static fire test of its latest Starship prototype this week, but not all went as planned. This was the third static fire test of the SN8 prototype, in which the rocket is fueled as ...

PROMONTORY — The United States Air Force and Northrop Grumman achieved a milestone last week in their efforts to modernize the land-based component of the country’s nuclear triad. According to an Air ...