The previously used Rutherford engine passed qualification tests and is set to make history as the first 3D-printed engine to reach space for a second time. reading time 3 minutes Reusability is the key to 21st century spaceflight, with many launch ...

Ever since SpaceX made reusability the most desirable trait of a spacefaring operation, all the companies working in this industry have shifted their attention toward making hardware that can fly to space more than once. And that includes a crew called ...

SpaceX owns 98% of global rocket launches, a monopoly with virtually no competition. Only China is competing with Elon Musk at this point in number of launches and, while the country is getting closer to mass-producing reusable rockets, it appears far from ...

A world-first study has proven microbes essential for human health can survive the extreme forces of space launch. The study has been published in npj Microgravity.

A former astronaut’s Houston-based company got a boost for its alternative rocket propulsion system and disclosed its flight-readiness timeline.

Rocket Lab will use the former headquarters of Virgin Orbit for producing Rutherford and Archimedes engines. Credit: Rocket Lab/Austin Adams LONG BEACH, Calif. — Rocket Lab has opened a new engine development center in a building that, six months earlier ...

Rocket Lab opened a new 144,000-square-foot Engine Development Center in Long Beach, CA, formerly Virgin Orbit's headquarters. The facility will produce the Rutherford engine and develop/produce the Archimedes engine for the Neutron rocket. The Neutron ...

The nations capable of space flight are increasingly turning ambitions toward the stars, but early pioneer Russia may be falling by the wayside.