Welcome to Edition 7.47 of the Rocket Report! Let’s hope not, but the quarrel between President Donald Trump and Elon Musk may be remembered as “Black Thursday” for the US space program. A simmering ...

The hydrogen-fueled engine powering the initial launch of the $1.5 billion H3 rocket in Japan worked flawlessly. But it was a more traditional second-stage engine failure after takeoff that doomed the ...

UK advanced propulsion developer Reaction Engines is to close down after it collapsed into administration having failed to secure additional funding. UK advanced propulsion developer Reaction Engines ...

Japan’s flagship H3 rocket has suffered a fresh setback, with an engine failure in its upper stage cutting short a high‑stakes mission and leaving a navigation satellite stranded short of orbit. The ...

BEIJING, Aug 15 (Reuters) - A flight test of one of Chinese commercial rocket developer LandSpace Technology's methane-powered rockets failed on Friday after the carrier rocket experienced an "anomaly ...

TOKYO (AP) — Japan’s space agency said its H3 rocket carrying a navigation satellite failed to put the payload into a planned orbit, a setback for the country’s new flagship rocket and its space ...

To be fair it's not solely a Brit thing. Every time anyone else has studied air-breathing rockets they find that the engine is optimized by getting rid of the air-breathing component. And horizontal ...