They loaded a Falcon 9 rocket with tens of thousands of gallons of kerosene and supercold liquid oxygen, a propellant combo that brought the craft’s nine Merlin engines roaring to life with 1.7 ...

Conventional rocket fuels such as kerosene and liquid oxygen, if skillfully used, could do the job. But superfuels are coming along—in both the U.S. and Russia.

Orienspace, a private space company that makes the world's mightiest solid-propellant carrier rocket, has begun to develop a new, liquid-fuel model, according to the new type's chief designer.

“The only realistic way to create a rocket fuel that does not produce any black carbon, is to not use carbon at all,” Tsigaridis adds. Liquid hydrogen is another popular fuel option that has long been ...

The Falcon 9 uses a fuel mixture of liquid oxygen and simple kerosene, and while the oxygen does not do any harm to the skies, the black soot created by the burning kerosene is injected directly ...

Liquid fuel rockets, like SpaceX’s Falcon 9 and Rocket Lab’s Electron, feature higher performance and greater flexibility, and are typically used to power large launch vehicles.

This is the XLR-11, also called the 6000C-4, one of the most widely used U.S. liquid-propellant rocket engines that powered the Bell X-1 and other rocket research aircraft. Developed by Reaction ...

NASA's new Artemis moon rocket is illuminated by xenon lights as she sits on Launch Pad 39-B hours ahead of a planned launch at the Kennedy Space Center Saturday, Sept. 3, 2022, in Cape Canaveral ...

The rocket and its booster were filled with liquid oxygen and liquid methane – the fuel that will lift it into orbit – at SpaceX’s Starbase facility in Boca Chica, Texas.