On a 21.5-acre stretch of land in Andhra Pradesh, engineers are bolting a rocket engine to a steel stand and setting it on fire. Deliberately. Again and again. Each burn is a question. Can a machine ...

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 ...

Build a new kind of rocket engine, and the world will beat a path to your door.

The exact origin of Sun Devil Rocketry is unclear, but current student leadership thinks it was established 20 years ago. In 2025, the team completed the first-ever successful test of a liquid rocket ...