The Pentagon said its investment will help expand production capacity on critical missile programs like the PAC-3, THAAD, ...

A nuclear thermal propulsion engine could cut the travel time in half for future space explorers racing to the Red Planet.

Former SpaceX propulsion CTO Thomas Mueller’s space startup reached unicorn status this year thanks to $525 million in ...

Reaching Alpha Centauri within a single human lifetime has long sounded like science fiction, yet a new generation of nuclear ...

NASA is backing a new generation of nuclear rockets that could compress the months-long journey to Mars into a sprint ...

Japan’s H3 rocket lifted off for its seventh mission on Sunday, but an engine failure foiled its attempt to insert a navigation satellite in geostationary orbit. Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency ...

STARTS RIGHT NOW. A ROCKET MOTOR MANUFACTURING AND TESTING FACILITY GOING UP IN RIO RANCHO. THE CITY CLAIMS IT WILL CREATE JOBS AND BOOST THE ECONOMY, BUT SOME RESIDENTS ARE WORRIED. THE ENVIRONMENTAL ...

Avio USA, the Arlington County-based U.S. subsidiary of Italian rocket company Avio SpA, has chosen Virginia as the location for a $500 million advanced manufacturing facility where it will produce ...

Northrop Grumman test-fired a solid rocket motor called SMASH!22 Dec. 4 as part of its SMART Demo development program. Credit: Northrop Grumman WASHINGTON — Northrop Grumman tested a solid rocket ...

Estes Energetics is the U.S.’ only producer of military-grade black powder, a key ingredient for the onshore integration and assembly of defense systems that the Pentagon wants more of. Voyager ...

Both defense primes and plucky startups are vying for a piece of the growing pie in the solid rocket motor market. Credit: Olena Bartienieva/Alamy Stock Image The long-duopolistic solid rocket motor ...

New campus to expand rocket motor manufacturing capacity six-fold Facility to support U.S. missile defense modernization efforts L3Harris investing $500 million across multiple states to meet defense ...