China successfully launched a classified satellite on Thursday (Jan. 23), but a spent booster from the mission fell shockingly close to a family home.

Some rockets use hypergolic propellants, which spontaneously burn when combined, but most require ignition. A SpaceX Merlin engine being tested. Credit: SpaceX When a chemical rocket engine fires ...

A large number of these were made by older, highly toxic hypergolic Long March series ... Last week it hosted a Jielong-3 solid propellant rocket launch and aims to facilitate around 10 launches ...

A solid-propellant rocket or solid rocket is a rocket with a rocket engine that uses solid propellants (fuel/oxidizer). The earliest rockets were solid-fuel rockets powered by gunpowder; they were ...