Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Debris scatters on June 26, 2025, during a static fire test of a new solid rocket motor at a Northrop Grumman facility in Utah.

Northrop Grumman has successfully ground tested the motor that could be used for the historic first orbital rocket launch from another planet. The solid rocket booster is intended to help return the ...

WELD COUNTY, Colo., Sept. 10, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Ursa Major broke ground on a new 400-acre solid rocket motor test site in Weld County, Colorado marking a significant expansion in the company's ...

The latest test of a next-generation rocket booster for NASA’s Artemis program ended with a violent hardware failure, a stark reminder that deep space ambitions still hinge on unforgiving engineering ...

Northrop Grumman (NYSE:NOC) has started flight tests of its XRQ-73 SHEPARD uncrewed aircraft for DARPA, marking a key step ...

Defense technology firm Anduril Industries has officially opened a full-scale solid rocket motor manufacturing facility in McHenry, Mississippi, challenging the duopoly dominated by Northrop Grumman ...

Chinese researchers have been building a body of work on how solid rocket motors behave when ignited deep underwater, where extreme hydrostatic pressure fundamentally changes the way exhaust gases ...