SpaceNews

Chinese startup Spark Space tests engine, raises funds for electric-pump rocket

Spark Space, established in 2024 and based in the city of Hefei, is developing the Jinhua-1, or Evolution-1, rocket. The ...
SpaceNews

Chinese startup Mega Engine advances reusable staged-combustion rocket engine

Framegrab from a video of a long-duration hot fire of the Chi engine. Credit: Mega Engine HELSINKI — A new Chinese commercial rocket engine startup has conducted a successful long-duration hot fire ...
BGR

SpaceX's Raptor Engine Vs. Blue Origin's BE-4 - What's The Difference In These Rocket Engines

The Earth is much larger than most people realize. You need to use engines if you want to efficiently navigate large sections of the planet. Everything from cars to planes relies on engines, but they ...
TechCrunch

This founder helped build SpaceX’s most powerful rocket engine. Now he’s building a ‘fighter jet for orbit.’

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 ...
Ars Technica

Rocket Report: Blunder at Baikonur; do launchers really need rocket engines?

Welcome to Edition 8.21 of the Rocket Report! We’re back after the Thanksgiving holiday with more launch news. Most of the big stories over the last couple of weeks came from abroad. Russian rockets ...