The rockets are clamped to the launchpad right up to ignition, and then need to release quickly and reliably. His previous clamps looked very cool, but suffered from high friction forces during ...

XI'AN, Jan. 19 (Xinhua) -- China successfully completed three ignition tests for liquid oxygen ... The tests involved two 120-tonne liquid oxygen-kerosene rocket engines and one 18-tonne liquid ...

After the lower stage of a rocket burns out and is ignited ... The task of an high-altitude simulation test facility is to provide this ambient pressure of around 2 millibars for the ignition of the ...

MOSCOW, June 22. /TASS/. Russia has tested a laser ignition system for the oxygen-hydrogen rocket engine for the first time. This work brings Russia closer to developing a reliable engine for ...