On Episode 152 of This Week In Space, Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik host Dr. Robert O'Brien, Director of the Universities Space ...

NASA spent the last two weeks hoisting a 103-ton component onto a simulator and installing it to help prepare for the next ...

Kratos' CEO Eric DeMarco disclosed the development of a new internally funded hypersonic drone, with a focus on affordability ...

rocket upper stage engines are used at altitudes of around 50 km above the earth's surface. There, the air pressure has already dropped to around 0.2 percent of its value at sea level (1013 millibars) ...

Research and Test Infrastructure Altitude Simulation Test Bench P1.0 In order to develop, test and qualify propulsion systems for satellites, upper stages or even space probes for their later use, it ...

Boyd. NGPDL is active in the development and application of physical models and numerical methods for simulation of nonequilibrium gas flows and plasmas. Current aerospace application areas include ...

For this test, the company will use four Starlink simulators ... that’s located higher up on the rocket to reduce heating during its reentry. Starship’s propulsion system was upgraded to ...

The rocket, a reaction-propulsion device that carries all of its propellants internally, has been around for almost a millennium since its invention in China. But the twentieth-century saw a ...

They discuss the history, current developments, and future potential of nuclear electric and nuclear thermal propulsion systems, which could revolutionize our ability to explore Mars and beyond ...