Building a flight-capable liquid-fuelled rocket engine is another thing entirely ... It’s fuelled by liquid methane, a first for a university-built rocket. The craft is constructed out of ...

is an engine fuelled by a combination of liquid oxygen and methane – considered to be a promising option for future rocket engines. On the one hand, this combination could significantly reduce the ...

Go back a generation of development, and excepting the shuttle-derived systems, all liquid rockets used RP-1 (aka kerosene) for their first stage. Now it seems everybody and their dog wants to ...

Ursa Major has been contracted to further refine its liquid rocket engine known as Draper for hypersonic technology ...

The P8 research and technology test bench enables the testing and development of individual engine components through to entire propulsion systems with a wide range of available media. What makes up ...

The test, performed for the development of the Cosmos engine for the Zero rocket, lasted 10 seconds and showcased liquid biomethane ... with their respective methane-fuelled Zhuque-2 and kerosene ...

Three additional tests were carried out, focusing on the rocket’s main propulsion engine, upper-stage engine, and attitude-orbit control engine. Moreover, a liquid-oxygen methane engine test was ...

Powered by three engines burning methane and liquid oxygen, the 3.8-metre (12.5ft) diameter test rocket lifted off from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Centre at around 1pm Beijing time, according to ...

Scientists have known for a while that Saturn's largest moon, Titan, has rivers and seas of liquid methane on its surface ... the latest updates on rocket launches, skywatching events and more!