In a Saturn V rocket engine, liquid oxygen and kerosene fuel are pumped separately into the engine at high pressure. They first travel through a pre-burner, which dumps exhaust into the air.

The shape tapers toward the back, ensuring that the exhaust gases flow along its ... In the ’60s, rocket engine design and ...

Read Explore the March 2025 issue, highlighting the installation of the new production RS-25 engine at NASA Stennis, and ...

A UK startup has unveiled a new fusion-powered space rocket concept called Sunbird for interplanetary travel to Mars — and ...

SpaceX doesn’t say by how much the footage has been slowed, but the detail visible in the exhaust ... engines for use in the vacuum of space, one of which features in the video. The Super Heavy ...

The Flows research group deals with the numerical investigation and modeling of reactive flows and heat transport in rocket engines. The supersonic flow in expansion nozzles and the acoustic emission ...

Rocket exhaust plume at 30 km as obtained by high-resolution computational fluid dynamics simulations. Temperature varies from 680 K (dark yellow) to 2,400 K (bright yellow). Journalists may use ...

This engine intended to be used as a torch igniter for a much larger rocket engine ... with a clear supersonic Mach diamond pattern in the exhaust.