Ninety years ago today, on March 28, 1935, Robert H. Goddard launched the first gyroscopically-stabilized liquid-fueled ...

It was powered by a combination of one liquid-fuel rocket engine and four Schmidding SG 34 solid-fuel booster rockets, giving it a blistering climb rate of 37,000 feet per minute. Capable of ...

And at the same time they doomed to swift obsolescence the cumbersome, complex, costly, “first-generation” liquid-fuel missiles ... of the biggest solid-fuel rocket engine ever built, with ...

On its fourth launch attempt, however, on September 28, 2008, the Falcon 1 successfully reached orbit, making it “the first privately developed liquid-fuel ... engines, it was the most powerful ...

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The prototype BE-3U engine was designed to power the upper stage of Blue Origin’s giant reusable New Glenn rocket that ...

PARIS - A stunning blue and white spiral spotted in skies across Europe late on March 24 was created by frozen fuel tumbling from a SpaceX rocket, according to weather forecasters and scientists.

Frozen fuel falling from a SpaceX rocket produced a blazing blue and white spiral across the skies of Europe late Monday. A stunning blue and white spiral spotted in skies across Europe late Monday ...

VDR2 offers a single engine solution from Mach 0 to Mach 6. This marks the first successful Rocket-Based Combined Cycle test. The engine architecture was unveiled in October at UP.Summit and combines ...

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