Modern spaceflight rests on a deceptively simple idea: a machine that carries its own fuel and oxidizer, then hurls exhaust ...

Ninety years ago today, on March 16, 1926, Robert H. Goddard (1882-1945) launched the world’s first liquid-propellant rocket. His rickety contraption, with its combustion chamber and nozzle on top, ...

Click to open image viewer. CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. This device is the oldest surviving liquid-propellant rocket in the world. It was designed and built by U.S. rocket ...

Chinese commercial space firm CAS Space is all set for a crucial first launch of its new Kinetica 2 rocket as soon as next month, amid intense competition inside the country. Kinetica 2 is CAS Space's ...

Without reusable rockets, China has turned to a wide variety of expendable boosters this year to launch less than half as ...