The company said its AVac engine delivers 1.2 times the thrust of the first-stage version and uses a taller vacuum-optimized ...

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 ...

Rocket Lab Corp. RKLB completed a full-duration hot-fire test of its Archimedes Vacuum engine on Monday, marking a critical ...

The Stoke Space rocket engine test lights up a vertical test stand in Moses Lake, Wash. (Stoke Space Photo) Stoke Space successfully hotfired its first-stage rocket engine on a new vertical test stand ...

In what may be a world first, Venus Aerospace has, for the first time in the US, successfully flown a Rotating Detonation Rocket Engine (RDRE) that uses supersonic explosions to create thrust. Such ...

SINGAPORE—China has completed the first system-level test of the YF-100K engine for its new Long March-10 rocket, a key launch vehicle designed for future crewed lunar missions. The China Manned Space ...

SpaceX completed a Starship engine test at its Starbase facility recently, igniting all six of the vehicle's engines for a ...

HELSINKI — Chinese commercial launch firm Orienspace is aiming for a late 2025 debut of its Gravity-2 rocket following a recent first-stage engine hot fire test. Orienspace announced July 8 that it ...

The Indian Space Research Organisation (Isro) has successfully conducted the Flight Acceptance Test of the CE20 Cryogenic Engine for the next LVM3 mission. Here are five reasons why this matters.