West Point, N.Y. – On April 18, the student-led Space Engineering and Research Rocket (SPEAR) program showcased a two-staged solid rocket, which traveled 5.2 times the speed of sound (nearly 4000 mph) ...

Adranos Inc., a Purdue-originated company that grew from a doctoral project into an impactful company, has been acquired by a major Costa Mesa, California-based defense products company, Anduril ...

Their prototype, called the centrifugal nuclear thermal rocket (CNTR), is pretty wild. Instead of relying on chemical combustion, or even the solid nuclear fuels tested ... professor of mechanical and ...

NASA and DARPA will work together to develop and demonstrate a nuclear thermal rocket engine in space by 2027. The Demonstration Rocket is part of the Agile Cislunar Operations (DRACO) programme.

If it proves successful, CNTR could allow future vehicles to travel farther using less fuel. Traditional chemical engines ...

Northrop Grumman Corporation successfully completed a live, static-fire test of a Sentinel intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) stage-two solid rocket motor at the U.S. Air Force Arnold ...

Newly established Pentagon supplier of solid rocket motors X-Bow Systems says its advanced methods will set it apart from the defense primes currently making the motors that power a host of U.S.

In 1959, NASA took over from the USAF, and the program entered a new phase dedicated to spaceflight applications. This eventually led to the Nuclear Engine for Rocket Vehicle Application (NERVA), a ...

L3Harris Technologies (NYSE: LHX) and Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders have announced plans to construct an extensive large solid rocket motor (LSRM) production campus at the company’s site in ...