Modern spaceflight rests on a deceptively simple idea: a machine that carries its own fuel and oxidizer, then hurls exhaust backward fast enough to push itself forward. The person who first turned ...

The rocket, a reaction-propulsion device that carries all of its propellants internally, has been around for almost a millennium since its invention in China. But the twentieth-century saw a ...

Madison, Wisconsin based Orbital Technologies Corporation (ORBITECTM) has successfully flight-tested its new rocket engine and technologies in Mojave, CA. ORBITEC integrated its Vortex Liquid Rocket ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. This is an early cooling liner for a ...

Conceived not long after the first Chevy small blocks hit American streets, the RL10 was the type of rocket engine you could ...

The new design could help address the growing problem of space debris, with the rocket devouring itself before reaching orbit. Reading time 2 minutes A new rocket is designed for its own destruction, ...

Aerojet, a GenCorp (NYSE: GY) company, announced today that NASA has successfully completed altitude testing of Aerojet’s advanced 5500-lbf Liquid Oxygen (LOX)/Liquid Methane (LCH4) Rocket Engine at ...

They were designed with its Noyron Large Computational Engineering Model and 3D printed with a high-temperature copper alloy.

There never was a better time to do business in space exploration. One needs to look no further than the many space startups presently operating in this industry to realize that's so. Another proof of ...

Chinese scientists claim to have found a new way of injecting helium into rocket engines, which could be used to make missiles that are much harder to detect or intercept. The new technology was ...