In response to a query from Ars about the engine test anomalies, Rocket Lab Chief Executive Officer Pete Beck downplayed concerns.

China’s private space industry is evolving at a dramatic pace, as it continues to strive to take on Elon Musk’s SpaceX. In a new development, Chinese rocket firm LandSpace conducted a key static fire ...

Watch how the Space Launch System rocket RS-25 undergoes a core stage engine test-fire. Credit: NASA's Stennis Space Center ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. NASA fired up RS-25 engine No. 20001 at the Fred Haise Test Stand at NASA’s Stennis Space Center at Bay St. Louis, Mississippi.

These advancements in China’s reusable rocket and lunar exploration programs come as NASA prepares to launch a crew of four astronauts on a loop around the far side of the Moon as soon as next month.

There's a new space race going on, with the goal of putting humans back on the moon. China has now joined the race with some successful rocket tests.

China has an orbital test for the Mengzhou spacecraft planned for later this year. There, it will launch on a Long March 10A with a single reusable first-stage booster, before docking with China's ...

Blue Origin has signed a Commercial Space Launch Act agreement with NASA for the use of the historic 4670 test stand at the Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC). Despite setting up its own in-house ...

The state corporation clarified that static fire tests are a key stage of a rocket engine’s ground testing before its installation on the rocket MOSCOW, January 14. /TASS/. A series of bench tests of ...