The rumble you will hear today, Monday, January 5 2026 is the sound of rocket engine hotfire testing. Hotfire testing — a ...

The Gantry at LC-39, an immersive, interactive experience that reimagines the historic Launch Complex 39 gantry, is now open at Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex. (Kennedy Space Center) BREVARD ...

Two American companies recently conducted a static fire test of an advanced solid rocket motor. The test conducted by Raytheon and Anduril was part of a contract that involves the Air Force Research ...

Debris scatters on June 26, 2025, during a static fire test of a new solid rocket motor at a Northrop Grumman facility in Utah. The motor is supposed to be used in later Artemis moon missions. A test ...

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) ...

SpaceX lost the Massey static fire stand due to a large explosion. SpaceX appears to be converting the first launch tower for static fire tests. They will perform one or two static fires for the ...

Overseen by the 717th Test Squadron and the Arnold Engineering Development Test Complex, the ground-based fire of the Sentinel’s second stage rocket motor was “conducted in a vacuum chamber to ...