NASA’s Space Shuttle Program successfully fired a full-scale, full-duration reusable solid rocket technical evaluation motor Thursday, March 9, at a Utah test facility. The two-minute static, or ...

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 ...

ARLINGTON, Va., Oct. 7, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Raytheon, an RTX (NYSE: RTX) business, and Anduril have successfully conducted a static fire test of an advanced solid rocket motor under a contract with ...

WELD COUNTY, Colo., Sept. 10, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Ursa Major broke ground on a new 400-acre solid rocket motor test site in Weld County, Colorado marking a significant expansion in the company's ...

Northrop Grumman tested the motor in the vacuum chamber in collaboration with the U.S. Air Force, continuing the development of the Minuteman III's replacement. Northrop Grumman has test fired the ...

[Joe Barnard] made a solid propellant rocket motor, and as one does in such situations, he put it through its paces on the test stand. The video below is not about the test, nor is it about the ...

X-Bow Systems, a US supplier of advanced manufactured solid rocket motors (SRMs), has announced the successful test-fire of the Bolt Rocket equipped with the XB-32 SRM. The XB-32 motor, part of ...

Albuquerque-based X-Bow Systems last month announced it had successfully tested its Ballesta-34 solid rocket motor, the largest of its kind. The rocket, nicknamed the XB-32, is the world's largest ...

NASA’s Space Shuttle program successfully fired its first Production Rate Motor Tuesday, Aug. 16, at a Utah test facility. The two-minute static, or stationary, firing of the rocket motor was ...