Northrop Grumman Corporation and NASA successfully conducted a full-scale static fire of NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) rocket motor, known as Flight Support Booster-2. The five-segment solid rocket ...

Northrop Grumman conducts a static test of its OmegA rocket in Utah Feb. 27. (Northrop Grumman image) Northrop Grumman conducted a static test of their new OmegA rocket at their facility in Promontory ...

WASHINGTON — A May 31 static fire test of the new first stage of Orbital ATK's Antares launch vehicle should clear the way for that rocket to return to flight in early July. An Antares first stage, ...

SpaceX is making progress toward the first orbital launch of its Starship launch vehicle, as the company recently conducted a successful static fire test. SpaceX took to its Twitter account to ...

SpaceX has cleared an important hurdle that brings it closer to the Starship system's first orbital flight test. The company has successfully completed a static fire test of the Super Heavy's current ...

The first SpaceX Falcon Heavy performs a static fire test Jan. 24 at Kennedy Space Center's Launch Complex 39A. Credit: Twitter @elonmusk SAN MATEO, Calif. — SpaceX carried out a static fire test of ...

When it comes to rockets, a “static-fire engine test,” by definition, means that the rocket should remain on the ground and not move. But during such a test in China on Sunday, that clearly didn’t ...

This static test fire of one of SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy booster may not actually be sending any rockets to space, but it does put off a lot of exhaust. The bulk of that is actually steam, as SpaceX ...

In this historical photo from the U.S. space agency, the DM-2 (Demonstration Motor) for the Solid Rocket Booster (SRB) is undergoing static test firing at the testing ground of Thiokol Corporation ...