Space shuttle Endeavour’s giant external orange fuel tank, ET-94, sits alongside two 149-foot solid rocket boosters at the California Science Center on Wednesday.

It’s a relatively new choice for rocket fuel, and it debuted in 2007 with a successful NASA engine test. Burning methane creates about 10 percent more specific impulse—the rocket equivalent of ...

After a rocket uses up its fuel, the tank generally lingers behind, either plummeting back to Earth or floating through space for eternity. Because the Ouroborous-3 burns most of its structure, ...

After a rocket uses up its fuel, the tank generally just becomes dead weight, but a prototype rocket that burns its own fuselage as propellant could solve that problem By Leah Crane 10 January 2024 ...

In northwest China, China successfully tested the Feitian 2, a new hypersonic vehicle. This test marks a major step forward ...

Rocket Lab's shares surged 375% in the past year, fueled by Neutron and strong Q3 earnings. Learn why RKLB stock still holds potential despite lofty valuation. Skip to content ...

Ukrainian paratroopers reportedly took out two Russian tanks using Swedish and Ukrainian rocket launchers. ... 155 cruise missiles, 15 warships, 2,699 motor vehicles and fuel tankers, ...

The tank is flight-ready. The next step is to conduct a “full-duration hot fire test” of the company’s proprietary MAREVL rocket engine, as the company prepares to use the engine to launch a ...

The object, a Breeze-M fuel tank, was part of Russia's Yamal 402 geostationary communications satellite. The tank has been orbiting since the Dec. 8, 2012, launch, SpaceWeather.com said.

The SLS rocket's two solid-fuel boosters consume 5.5 tons of propellant per second. The heat generated by the boosters during their two minutes of operation, if converted into electricity, would ...

BRITS are being urged to fill up their tanks as petrol prices could rocket in a matter of days. Fears are mounting that Iran ...

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