These rockets offer high thrust, but they are relatively fuel inefficient and ... s Solid Rocket Boosters get a specific impulse of just 250 seconds, while liquid oxygen-liquid hydrogen rocket ...

AI gives a thumbs up to Brett Bellmore innovative modifications to Robert Zubrin’s Nuclear Salt Water Rocket (NSWR).

Scott Manley calls it a constant Chernobyl rocket. It is a nuclear reactor constantly at meltdown temperatures. The rocket was designed so that the liquid flow rate or ... 1.575% of the speed of light ...

The German company Isar Aerospace is preparing for the historic launch of the Spectrum rocket. This event could increase ...

This story has been changed to clarify that it is the world's largest single-segment solid rocket. China says it ... four times as powerful as the liquid fuel engine on the Long March 5, the ...

Liu Lidong, another designer at CALT, said that the rocket's final stage -- using liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen as fuel -- has a high specific impulse characteristic, allowing the rocket to ...

As a result, helium, the ultralight gas used to pressurise liquid rocket fuel ... boosted the specific impulse by 5.77 per cent, enabling thrust levels to soar 300 per cent through adjustable ...