Flying a thrust-vectoring rocket can be a challenge, and even more so if you stack multiple stages and a minimalist flight computer on top of it all. But [Joe Barnard] is not one to shy away from ...

"The computational model is computationally intensive ... which burns the mixture in a controlled way to produce thrust. Rotating detonation rocket engines are an entirely different beast in ...

Among the investors was André-Hubert Roussel, former CEO of ArianeGroup, who oversaw the development of Europe’s only ...

In order to significantly increase the effectiveness, performance and specific impulse of future rocket engines, high combustion chamber ... development of space transportation systems. The thrust ...

Russia’s new plasma engine could reach Mars in just 30 days. Russia's new plasma rocket engine is engineered to cut the transit time to Mars from 7 months down to between 30 and 60 days. This device ...

When four of them come together at the bottom of the rocket, they are capable of developing a combined two million pounds of thrust. This first engine will be followed by 23 others, also new ...

creating a magnetic field that expels the particles and provides thrust. A laboratory prototype of the engine has been developed and is undergoing ground testing to develop a flight model by 2030.

This story has been changed to clarify that it is the world's largest single-segment solid rocket. China says it fired up the world’s largest single-segment solid-fuel rocket engine for the ...