The biggest excitement in the missile-preoccupied Pentagon is the rapid progress of solid-propellant rockets. Not only the solid fuels have been improved. So have the engines that were once full ...

Tory Bruno provided an update on the investigation into the Vulcan mishap and discussed when to expect next ULA launch.

But the twentieth-century saw a technological explosion of new rocket-propulsion systems, using both solid and liquid propellants. Rocket-powered ... Cold War missiles and launch vehicles, and rocket ...

Team Abstract: The HADES team is seeking to add to the collective CU Boulder knowledge base of hybrid rockets through the development of a liquid-solid hybrid engine. This engine will be used to power ...

Helium, used to pressurize rocket fuel systems ... to harness its properties to increase the efficiency of solid propellant engines. Their work, published in Acta Aeronautica et Astronautica ...

System competence is understood as the ability to: be able to describe the operating behavior of a liquid propellant rocket engine in steady-state and transient conditions, be able to describe the ...

The United States Air Force and Northrop Grumman achieved a milestone last week in their efforts to modernize the land-based ...

It is also speculated that a solid-propellant missile could have been ... by means of a cold launch without the ignition of the rocket engine, using a technique similar to that of solid-propellant ...

Unlike SpaceX Falcon 9 — which is fully liquid propellant — ULA's Vulcan rocket utilizes solid rocket boosters at liftoff. "The BE-4 rocket engines compensated, steered for that, and took us ...