HELSINKI — Space Pioneer has become the first Chinese private launch firm to achieve orbit with a liquid propellant rocket. The Tianlong-2 (“Sky Dragon-2”) lifted off from a transport erector launcher ...

HELSINKI — Commercial launch firm Space Pioneer announced new funding this week and will soon take a shot at becoming China’s first such company to reach orbit with a liquid propellant rocket. Space ...

BEIJING (Reuters) - Beijing Tianbing Technology Co on Sunday successfully launched a kerosene-oxygen rocket, becoming the first private Chinese launch company to send a liquid-propellant rocket into ...

A new approach to optical propulsion uses lasers to lift and steer objects in multiple directions. The innovative material ...

Chinese launch company Space Pioneer is all set for its first attempt to reach orbit, according to a photo from the country's Jiuquan spaceport. Space Pioneer's Tianlong 2 rocket, which can translate ...

Ninety years ago today, on March 16, 1926, Robert H. Goddard (1882-1945) launched the world’s first liquid-propellant rocket. His rickety contraption, with its combustion chamber and nozzle on top, ...

As NASA works to develop all the systems needed to return astronauts to the moon under its Artemis campaign for the benefit of all, the SLS (Space Launch System) rocket will be responsible for ...

The rocket, a reaction-propulsion device that carries all of its propellants internally, has been around for almost a millennium since its invention in China. But the twentieth-century saw a ...