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Explore the breakthrough of Kelvin Mk.1, Northern Ireland's first student-designed liquid rocket engine from Queen's University Belfast.
The model predicts how fuel droplets and gas particles behave in detonation waves. These waves occur in rocket engines, ...
New Frontier Aerospace says it has put its 3D-printed Mjölnir rocket engine through a series of successful hot-fire tests.
NASA fired up a full-duration test of its new RS-25 engine that will power the Space Launch System rocket on Artemis missions ...
Japan's primary rocket builder, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, is another titan of Japanese industry, but it has never launched ...
The Falcon 9 rocket, a creation of Elon Musk's SpaceX, is a partially reusable launch vehicle. Its components can be recovered and reused for subsequent missions, making space travel more sustainable.
BEIJING -- China has successfully completed the full-engine testing of a 140-tonne liquid oxygen-methane engine that will power the country's reusable carrier rockets, the engine's maker said on ...
Modern rockets, which use a liquid or solid fuel, didn't come into being until a scientist named Dr. Robert H. Goddard developed and launched the first liquid-fueled rocket on March 16, 1926.
The rocket is the Long March 12, and can carry payloads of 12 tons to low-Earth orbit or hoist half that to Sun-synchronous orbit. The two-stage launcher is a single-core affair powered by a quartet ...
Born into this world as America's first liquid hydrogen rocket engine, it was continuously improved, and it will continue to be so for many years to come. The newest iteration of the powerplant? A ...