HELSINKI — Chinese launch startup Landspace carried out a breakthrough static fire test Friday as it builds towards an orbital launch attempt with its Zhuque-3 rocket. The nine engines of the Zhuque-3 ...

Two American companies recently conducted a static fire test of an advanced solid rocket motor. The test conducted by Raytheon and Anduril was part of a contract that involves the Air Force Research ...

Highly Loaded Grain (HLG) Solid Rocket Motors allow extended range and customized thrust profiles with the same propellant and the same size rocket motor. Anduril and Raytheon announced on Oct. 7, ...

Debris scatters on June 26, 2025, during a static fire test of a new solid rocket motor at a Northrop Grumman facility in Utah. The motor is supposed to be used in later Artemis moon missions. A test ...

Exhaust billows from a tethered static fire test of a Long March 10 first-stage test article at the LC-301 launch pad, Wenchang Space Launch Site, Hainan Island, China, Aug. 15, 2025. Credit: CMSEO ...

Zhuque-3 looks a lot like SpaceX's workhorse Falcon 9. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. China's first reusable rocket just took a ...

Overseen by the 717th Test Squadron and the Arnold Engineering Development Test Complex, the ground-based fire of the Sentinel’s second stage rocket motor was “conducted in a vacuum chamber to ...