Northrop Grumman Corporation along with NASA and Lockheed Martin successfully performed a ground firing test of the abort motor for NASA’s Orion spacecraft Launch Abort System (LAS) at Northrop ...

A redesigned Zefiro-40 motor, used in the second stage of the Vega C, passed a static-fire test May 28. Credit: Avio WASHINGTON — The European Space Agency says a successful test firing of a ...

Things are moving fast with the development of the U.S. Army’s next-generation Precision Strike Missile (PrSM). Recently, Northrop Grumman has successfully conducted a static test of the motor to ...

All but two of the rocket's 33 Raptor engines were engaged during the critical test, which SpaceX CEO Elon Musk says is still enough for an orbital launch. Reading time 3 minutes SpaceX performed the ...

The hot-fire test of a chilled-down solid-fuel rocket motor for NASA’s planned heavy-lift Space Launch System (SLS) on June 28 moved the big human-rated rocket a step closer to its first flight in ...

A static fire test of an XB-32 rocket. Credit: X-Bow Systems X-Bow Systems completed a static test on the company’s largest rocket so far, the strategic-class Ballesta, the Albuquerque, New ...

SpaceX moved a step closer to launching another Starship with a successful test of its powerful engines. The Elon Musk-led company completed a static test Friday of its Super Heavy Booster No. 9 at ...

PROMONTORY — The United States Air Force and Northrop Grumman achieved a milestone last week in their efforts to modernize the land-based component of the country’s nuclear triad. According to an Air ...