The US Air Force (USAF) and Northrop Grumman have achieved a key milestone in the LGM-35A Sentinel intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) modernisation by completing the full-scale qualification ...

NASA’s Space Shuttle program successfully test fired its first Flight Verification Motor — a test to further validate the five-year lifespan of a Reusable Solid Rocket Motor — Thursday, Feb. 17, at a ...

ST. LOUIS — Nidec Motor Corp. (NMC) has launched a virtual test service that enables customers to remotely witness and monitor motor testing that is being done at NMC’s Mena, Arkansas manufacturing ...

NASA’s Space Shuttle Program successfully fired a full-scale, full-duration reusable solid rocket technical evaluation motor Thursday, March 9, at a Utah test facility. The two-minute static, or ...

Overseen by the 717th Test Squadron and the Arnold Engineering Development Test Complex, the ground-based fire of the Sentinel’s second stage rocket motor was “conducted in a vacuum chamber to ...

A subscale solid rocket motor tested in a flight-like vertical orientation fired with 50,000 pounds of thrust and ignited new insights into solid rocket performance. The hot fire, conducted at the ...

Rolls-Royce has started AE1107F engine testing to support the U.S. Army’s MV-75 Future Long-Range Assault Aircraft (FLRAA) program. Evaluation will be conducted at its manufacturing campus in ...

Anduril Industries, a US-based defense technology company co-founded by the inventor of the Oculus Rift VR headset, has successfully test fired its 21-inch hypersonic solid rocket motor for the US ...

How the challenges of electric-motor control design can be overcome using digital twins in all design and test phases. How automated testing within a continuous and integrated toolchain is able to ...