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Rocket Project at UCLA spent hours across months building a fuel tank. Project Ares, Rocket Project’s senior team, built a prototype tank with liquid oxidizer and fuel to test what pressures it could ...

A new China rocket mission is generating interest beyond low Earth orbit. Here's why space agencies around the world are closely watching its next moves.

For most of the space age, rocket launches were rare. Their environmental impact was also negligible. A plume here, a plume there, nothing too damaging. The pollution they left behind was incomparably ...

Rocket Lab USA, Inc. (NASDAQ:RKLB) completed a suborbital launch in November to test hypersonic technology for the U.S. Department of Defense. The mission underscores Rocket Lab’s capabilities in ...

The batch of satellites are due to hitch a ride on a United Launch Alliance rocket, which is scheduled to get off the ground from Cape Canaveral, Florida. The venture is meant to challenge Starlink, ...

Rocket Lab received a $190 million contract to perform test flights with one of its rockets for a Defense Department effort. Under the contract, Rocket Lab will perform 20 hypersonic test flights with ...

Rocket Lab, Lockheed Martin and L3 Harris Technologies are among a group of eight aerospace and defense companies sharing a multibillion-dollar military vendor pool with SpaceX for a new space defense ...

After a previous failed launch, members of the UC Irvine Rocket Project solids team harbored doubts as they arrived at the Mojave Desert testing site 13 months ago. Their new competition rocket had ...

Government documents show a lineup of defense contractors joining SpaceX to create a satellite network to track airborne threats The U.S. government is tapping both of the country's biggest launch ...