Rocket engineering is shifting from painstaking machining and welding to a world where engines and tanks emerge from printers as single, sculpted pieces of metal. Instead of treating 3D printing as a ...

After two years of preparation and four delays over the past several months due to technical glitches, Indian space startup Agnikul has successfully launched its first suborbital test vehicle, powered ...

Many firsts: The Agnikul mission was packed with multiple firsts that have significant implications both for India and the world. It marked the country's inaugural rocket launch from a privately owned ...

Relativity Space, the 3D-printing rocket builder, is making another big bet: Developing a fully reusable rocket, designed to match the power and capability of SpaceX's workhorse Falcon 9 rockets.

Ever since SpaceX made reusability the most desirable trait of a spacefaring operation, all the companies working in this industry have shifted their attention toward making hardware that can fly to ...

Rocket Lab is making innovative strides in space travel with the Neutron medium payload rocket – namely, it's the largest composite rocket ever made. Initially, hundreds of layers and thousands of ...

An Ursa Major employee prepares a Hadley engine chamber for transport after 3D printing is complete at the company’s Youngstown, Ohio, manufacturing facility. Credit: Ursa Major WASHINGTON — Ursa ...

Ursa Major, a startup that produces rocket motors through 3D printing, announced today that it received a $12.5 million contract from the Department of Defense’s Office of Strategic Capital (OSC) and ...

SAN FRANCISCO – Rosotics unveiled a metal 3D printer July 17 for rocket tanks and other large aerospace structures. “This system is designed for demanding applications as well as the more commonplace ...

A startup aerospace company is attempting something never done before: printing an entire rocket using massive metal 3D ...

Firehawk Aerospace test-fires a GMLRS-equivalent hybrid rocket engine from a purpose-built, mobile platform. (Firehawk Aerospace) Firehawk Aerospace recently conducted its first flight test of a ...

Imagine you’re driving to work on a rainy day, when a distracted, reckless driver hits your car out of nowhere. With a “boom,” an airbag deploys faster than you can blink your eyes to save your life.