Rocket design is one of the most exciting yet complex areas of engineering. It offers a completely different perspective on ...

While carbon fiber's still more pricey than metal, I'm thinking that matters a bit less for a reusable rocket, because that cost can be amortized across multiple launches, and the incremental gains ...

Rocket builder Relativity Space, which is 3D-printing almost entire rockets, recently passed a key milestone as it moves closer to its first launch. "It's a pretty big deal to show that the materials ...

China’s major carbon fibre and composite materials producer Hengshen announced that the supporting cabin of the main load-bearing part of a civil rocket that the company developed, designed and ...

Orbital ATK, Inc. announced that the company’s Iuka, Mississippi, manufacturing plant has produced its 500th large composite rocket structure for United Launch Alliance (ULA) launch vehicles. Since ...