Last week the Naval Ordnance Test Station at China Lake, Calif, unveiled a fuel system that could solve this problem. It uses hypergolic fuel, i.e., two fluids that ignite as soon as they come in ...

Cornell researchers have harnessed a chemical reaction typically used in rocket fuel ignition to create ... drew inspiration from hypergolic reactions—energetic, spontaneous chemical reactions ...

The Chollima-1, which also suffered several explosive test failures, uses hypergolic fuels ... A petroleum fuel and liquid oxygen engine may suggest that Russia, which vowed last year to help ...