A little more than two months ago, a Rocket Lab employee called the Stennis Space Center Fire Department from the nearby E3 test stand. There was a grass fire where Archimedes engines undergo testing.

BOCA CHICA, Texas — SpaceX shook the South Texas coastline in May 2026 when it lit all 33 Raptor 3 engines on the first Starship V3 Super Heavy booster, producing what the company says is the most ...

Welcome to Edition 8.21 of the Rocket Report! We’re back after the Thanksgiving holiday with more launch news. Most of the big stories over the last couple of weeks came from abroad. Russian rockets ...

The Earth is much larger than most people realize. You need to use engines if you want to efficiently navigate large sections of the planet. Everything from cars to planes relies on engines, but they ...

Jeff Thornburg helped turn a government research project into SpaceX’s most powerful rocket engine. Now, he’s trying to do the same thing at his startup Portal Space Systems, which is taking an idea ...

Full system test fire of the Lieyan-2 rocket engine in early 2026. Credit: Spark Space PADUA, Italy — Chinese startup Spark Space has secured a series of funding rounds for what it claims will be the ...