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Russia’s plasma engine could reach Mars in 30 days, drastically reduce space travel time
Russian scientists claim to have developed a plasma electric rocket engine that could enable travel to Mars in just one to ...
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NASA's new supersonic X-59 jet hits the afterburner (photos)
In new photos, the X-59 performs afterburner tests at Lockheed Martin's legendary Skunk Works facility in Palmdale, ...
Can You Put Jet Fuel In A Diesel Engine? (And What Happens If You Do?)
It's the stuff of fantasy: jet fuel making a dieselvehicle tak e off like, well, a jet. But what really happens if you put jet fuel in your diesel's tank?
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Mars in 30 days? Russia unveils prototype of plasma rocket engine
A laboratory prototype of a plasma electric rocket engine based on a magnetic plasma accelerator has been produced by Rosatom ...
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Japanese Rocket Engine Explodes: Continuously And On Purpose
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 ...
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Virgin Orbit will soon use its modified Boeing 747 to launch satellites into orbit using a rocket strapped to the wing — here's how it works
Taking place two years after debuting its full rocket ... Jet used by Virgin Orbit comes from another Branson company, Virgin Atlantic Airways. Source: Planespotters.net Four General Electric CF6 ...
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Why it's taken nearly 100 years to build real jet packs
And systems like the Bell Rocket Belt were actually rocket packs ... had in terms of enough propulsive force in a small form. Jet engines, I mean, they haven't been around that long.
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Hybrid air-breathing jet engines for space travel
It is a hybrid between a conventional jet engine, and a rocket system powered by liquid oxygen. The system will be reusable, much like an aeroplane, with no need to jettison expensive fuel tanks ...