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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...

Team Abstract: The HADES team is seeking to add to the collective CU Boulder knowledge base of hybrid rockets through the development of a liquid-solid hybrid engine. This engine will be used to power ...

Now the first powered test vehicle has hitched a ride under the Roc carrier for the company's 12th flight, where the TA-1 vehicle with live propellant was carried aloft for more than three hours to ...

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 ...

Indian startup Astrobase is developing an advanced methane rocket engine using full-flow combustion, aiming for a reusable medium-lift launch vehicle and a maiden orbital launch by 2029.