The 156-foot-long five-segment solid rocket motor produced upwards of 4 million pounds of thrust during the test.

Flying a thrust-vectoring rocket can be a challenge, and even more so if you stack multiple stages and a minimalist flight computer on top of it all. But [Joe Barnard] is not one to shy away from s… ...

NASA completed a hot-fire test of a small-scale solid rocket motor that produced over 82,000 pounds of scorching thrust.

United Launch Alliance fired off a next-generation Vulcan rocket Friday in the second of two "certification" test flights needed before the new launcher can be used to carry high-priority national ...

Measuring forces in the millions of newtons, like the 570,000 newtons thrust of jet engines or the staggering 33 million newtons generated by the Saturn V rocket, requires extraordinary precision ...

The maximum thrust of the Saturn V rocket that took NASA astronauts to the moon during the Apollo program was relatively paltry: 7.6 million pounds.

They found that this technique effectively tripled the thrust of solid-fuel rockets on demand. The team also discovered that adding helium dramatically reduced the rocket’s exhaust temperature.

Make sure you have a backup propulsion plan, though; Rockets disappear after a short while, and if you're flying through the skies without any other source of thrust, you may end up stranded or worse.

NASA's powerhouse Space Launch System rocket is preparing for blastoff to the moon — and someday, Mars.

That huge kick came from a combination of four RS-25 engines, which developed 512,000 pounds of thrust each, and two solid rocket boosters that made up for the difference.

Like all rockets, yours works because of thrust. That’s the force that moves the rocket. The air pushing out from the balloon gives thrust to move your rocket forward. Try to experiment with different ...