The European Space Agency on Friday awarded The Exploration Company a €760 million contract to build and fly Europe’s first ...
Jeff Thornburg helped turn a government research project into SpaceX’s most powerful rocket engine. Now, he’s trying to do the same thing at his startup Portal Space Systems, which is taking an idea ...
In a country where private rocket startups have mostly chased the “cab-to-space” model — small, cheap launch vehicles for ...
The Exploration Company raised $450m, with most going to Storm, a methane engine for a European heavy launcher nobody has ...
Being more efficient and more powerful than chemical rockets, plasma engines are seen as the future of human spaceflight. While NASA-backed plasma rocket projects aim for travel times to Mars be just ...
CycloKinetics is testing its alternative rocket fuel with Venus Aerospace in a rotating detonation ...