A full-scale fuel preburner for Stratolaunch’s PGA rocket engine undergoes a test firing at NASA’s Stennis Space Center in Mississippi. (Stratolaunch Photo) Stratolaunch Systems, the space venture ...

Aerojet Rocketdyne recently conducted hot-fire tests to validate the design of the preburner for the AR1 rocket engine, which represents the nation’s lowest-risk, lowest-cost-to-the-taxpayer and ...

Stratolaunch test-fires the preburner for its PGA engine, a liquid-oxygen/liquid-hydrogen engine. Credit: Stratolaunch WASHINGTON — Stratolaunch has performed the ...

A German company has completed a six-week test of its full-flow staged combustion rocket engine. Named Typhoon, the engine’s oxygen-rich preburner was tested at the German Aerospace Center (DLR) ...

The United States Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) has successfully tested a component that promises to usher in a new generation of high-performance American rocket engines. Called a preburner, ...

The preburner for Stratolaunch’s PGA rocket engine blazes during a hot-fire test. (Stratolaunch via Twitter) Chalk up another milestone for Stratolaunch Systems’ rocket engine development effort: The ...

LOUISVILLE, Colo.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sierra Space, a leading pureplay commercial space company building the first end-to-end business and technology platform in space, announced today that it ...

Aerojet Rocketdyne Holdings, Inc.’s AJRD subsidiary, Aerojet Rocketdyne, reached full power during a significant preburner test series that was conducted at the NASA’s Stennis Space Center earlier ...

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Office of Commercial Space Transportation (AST) issued Space Florida a Launch Site Operator License (LSOL) for operations at the Cape Canaveral Spaceport ...

Stratolaunch, a Seattle-based company that is building the world’s biggest plane to launch rockets into space, hasn’t had an easy time of late. They missed their own target to fly their plane for the ...