[Markus Bindhammer] worked out a way to make solid rocket propellant from newspaper ... which serves as an oxidizer, white wood glue, and PVC pipe. The KClO3 is ground with a mortar and pestle ...

More specifically, the rocket propellant consists of both fuel and oxidizer. The fuel is typically something flammable, usually hydrogen, methane or kerosene. The oxidizer is usually liquid oxygen ...

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 ...

Liquid-fuelled rocket engine design has largely followed a simple template since the development of the German V-2 rocket in the middle of World War 2. Propellant and oxidizer are mixed in a ...

The first attempt to send an Australian-made rocket into orbit is set to take place no sooner than March 15, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation reports. Gilmour Space Technologies' launch window ...

In most rocket engines, liquid hydrogen fuel and liquid oxygen oxidizer are pumped into a combustion chamber, where they ignite and produce hot exhaust to propel the rocket. A plasma rocket ...

WASHINGTON — Rocket propulsion startup Ursa Major is ... which take in atmospheric oxygen as an oxidizer. Meanwhile, Draper is “agnostic to the environment,” he added. Development and ...

ISRO announced on Friday that it is developing a LOX-methane engine and stages for the Next Generation Launch Vehicle (NGLV), which would feature a reusable booster stage and two expendable upper ...

It was the 100th rocket launch from the Satish Dhawan Space ... Because the valves for supplying the oxidizer did not open, the engines could not have been ignited. NVS-02 is intended for India's ...

The Aestus upper stage engine was tested on the P4.2. The engine delivers a thrust of around 27.5 kilonewtons and is powered by dinitrogen tetroxide (N 2 O 4) as an oxidizer and mono-methyl hydrazine ...