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Houston-based Venus Aerospace flew a rotating detonation rocket engine last week, proving a key technology for the high-speed ...
Artemis 2's Space Launch System rocket core stage was fitted with 4 RS-25 engines at NASA’s Michoud Assembly Facility in New ...
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifted off from Florida's Space Coast on Tuesday night (May 6), carrying 28 Starlink broadband satellites into low Earth orbit.
Rocket Lab USA recently secured selection for a hypersonic test flight under the MACH-TB 2.0 program and participation in multi-billion dollar government contracts, potentially enhancing its ...
The nine Merlin engines on B1063 cut off about 2.5 minutes into flight, with the first stage separating from the rocket's upper stage to carry the satellites the rest of the way to orbit.
A Falcon 9 rocket launched SpaceX 's Starlink 6-74 mission Thursday night, April 24, out of Florida's Space Coast. Liftoff occurred at 9:52 p.m. ET (0152 GMT, April 25) from Launch Complex-40 (LC-40) ...
executed main engine cutoff and separated from the rocket's upper stage about 2.5 minutes into flight. Approximately six minutes later, B1069 landed safely on SpaceX's A Shortfall of Gravitas ...
Aerospike rocket engines are the stuff of legend in the space industry. Conceived in the 1960s, their unique spiked-nozzle design promises better efficiency, reusability, and performance at all ...
To slip the surly bonds of Earth, an object needs to reach a speed of 6.9 miles per second (11.2 km/s), or 24,840 ... The SpaceX Falcon 9's Merlin engines use rocket-grade kerosene (RP-1) fuel ...
(Rudy Ruitenberg/staff) PARIS — Pan-European missile maker MBDA bought the remaining 50% of rocket-engine supplier Roxel ... is investing at least €2.4 billion (US$2.5 billion) over five ...
The Stoke Space rocket engine test lights up a vertical ... It’s the first hotfire of the company’s Block 2 (flight layout) stage 1 engine, and this engine architecture — called full-flow ...
Rocket Lab’s new oxidizer-rich staged combustion cycle rocket engine that will power the reusable first stage of Neutron and its second stage capable of delivering up to 13,000 kilograms of ...