The closed-cycle rocket engine design. Image via Wikipedia The Russian ... with five times the thrust of a jumbo jet. The RD-180 was not a slam dunk design, however. Because of the closed-cycle ...

Liquid-fuelled rocket engine design has largely followed a simple template since the development of the German V-2 rocket in the middle of World War 2. Propellant and oxidizer are mixed in a ...

A space-aged new pan designed by a rocket scientist from the University ... its outside inspired by heat transfer methods used in jet engines and rockets. Inventors say the fins help to more ...

It is a hybrid between a conventional jet engine, and a rocket system powered by liquid ... A practical exercise could follow in which groups design their own low-tech heat exchange.

The Akronauts Rocket Design Team aims to become one of the few collegiate teams to reach space with their Emergence series of rockets.