Welcome to Edition 8.41 of the Rocket Report! The stories of the world’s two most powerful rockets are now intertwined.

A Chinese vacuum manufacturer is strapping rocket boosters to an electric supercar, openly challenging Tesla. We must explore the terrifying physics, historical failures, and demographic dangers of ...

SpaceX on Tuesday introduced Starship V3, the third generation of its Starship and Super Heavy rocket system, featuring extensive redesigns based on years of flight testing and development. The new ...

Abstract: This article investigates the problem of robust trajectory design for low-thrust spacecraft subject to state and observation uncertainties. An adaptive latent reinforcement learning (RL) ...

A 205 foot rocket generating 2.7 million pounds of thrust doesn’t leave the ground without perfect timing. With only a 30 minute launch window, every second leading up to liftoff is critical as dozens ...

A new generation of space rockets is inching closer to launch. Private space company Astrobotic recently revealed it carried out a successful test of two of its rotating detonation rocket engines ...

Pittsburgh-based Astrobotic has completed a successful series of hot-fire tests of its rotating detonation rocket engine prototype Chakram, marking a key milestone toward bringing the experimental ...

A United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket launched 29 of Amazon's internet satellites on Monday night (April 27), tying its payload-weight record in the process. The Atlas V lifted off from Florida's ...

Space startup Astrobotic put its rotating detonation rocket engine (RDRE) to the test for the first time, demonstrating a potentially groundbreaking technology that generates thrust by supersonic ...

Welcome to Edition 8.38 of the Rocket Report! The big news this week concerned the third launch of the New Glenn rocket. The first 15 minutes of the flight were exhilarating for Blue Origin, seeing a ...

WASHINGTON — Astrobotic, a developer of lunar landers and suborbital rockets, has successfully tested an advanced rocket engine that could power those vehicles. The Pittsburgh-based company announced ...