ESA will pay an Italian company nearly $50 million to design a mini-Starship

ESA and Avio signed the deal, worth 40 million euros ($47 million), on the sidelines of the International Astronautical ...
SpaceNews

New SLS booster design suffers anomaly during test

Debris flies away from the nozzle of the BOLE solid rocket booster during a static-fire test June 26. Credit: NASA webcast WASHINGTON — A new version of the solid rocket booster being developed for ...
Gizmodo

NASA’s Next-Gen Rocket Booster Explodes in Test of a Design That May Never Fly

While the fate of NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) rocket hangs in the balance, the agency is pushing ahead with tests of new components needed to launch the vehicle toward the Moon. The latest test ...
Digital Trends

NASA just test fired its next-gen SLS lunar rocket booster – watch it here

NASA has completed the first full-scale static test fire of the Booster Obsolescence and Life Extension (BOLE) solid rocket motor, the next-generation solid rocket booster for the space agency’s SLS ...
Orlando Sentinel

Northrop Grumman tests future Artemis booster, but suffers destructive ‘anomaly’

Northrop Grumman saw some fiery drama during a test of a more powerful version of the solid rocket booster that would be used if NASA’s Artemis program ever gets to its ninth launch using the ...
Ars Technica

NASA tested a new SLS booster that may never fly, and the end of it blew off

NASA's Space Launch System appears to have a finite shelf life. The Trump administration wants to cancel it after just three launches, while the preliminary text of a bill making its way through ...