The rocket engine has come a long way - from fire arrows in ancient China to massive boosters capable of launching humans to Mars. For centuries, rocket technology evolved in small, incremental steps, ...

Among the investors was André-Hubert Roussel, former CEO of ArianeGroup, who oversaw the development of Europe’s only ...

So far, the consequences of these failures have not been lethal. But space remains a difficult, hazardous game. Reentering ...

Most any rocket engine you’d find on a spacecraft – save for solid or hybrid rockets – use an engine system that’s fairly complex. Because of the intense heat, the fuel is circulated ...

The Liquid Engines Office for NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) Program is planning a busy schedule of test campaigns next year in parallel with efforts to complete preparations for the vehicle ...

When the idea of an engine hacks theme was being kicked around at Hack a Day, the subject of rocket engines was one of the first to come up. There was a problem though; solid rocket motors are far ...

The slowed-down video shows the rocket’s 33 Raptor engines firing up as the enormous 120-meter-tall vehicle leaves the launchpad. With the rocket pumping out a colossal 17 million pounds of ...

At the heart of the rocket is a new kind of engine called Archimedes. Using a lot of 3D-printed parts (the housings for the turbo pump and valve, the pre-burner, components of the main chamber ...

China says it fired up the world’s largest single-segment solid-fuel rocket engine for the first time, at a ground testing facility in the country’s northwest on Tuesday. The rocket’s 3.5 ...

The Akronauts Rocket Design Team aims to become one of the few collegiate teams to reach space with their Emergence series of rockets.