The Minuteman III is a three-stage, solid-fuel rocket, meaning it can be launched with minimal preparation—an essential ...

Solid-fuel rockets are the dream weapons of military rocketeers. They have no pumps or valves to go wrong and are always ready to fire. Their big trouble is that they are harder to control than ...

The strong-willed director of NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center, he failed to pass on warnings from engineers that the ...

L3Harris' Aerojet Rocketdyne broke ground on a major expansion of solid rocket motor production facilities as the U.S. seeks ...

The man who led a NASA facility that shouldered much of the blame for the 1986 space shuttle Challenger explosion has died ...

Construction begins. on Camden factory. Construction has begun on four new solid rocket motor production facilities at L3Harris Technologies' Camden site. The expansion is part of ...

A second charge of solid propellant to restart the turbopump was comparatively simple. But since the rocket would be fired while in orbit, when everything on a satellite is weightless, the fuel ...