Private space company Stoke announces a new design for a rocket engine that could make the Nova launcher's second stage ...

Eco-friendly alternatives to fossil fuels are venturing beyond Earth—and into space.

In a Saturn V rocket engine, liquid oxygen and kerosene fuel are pumped separately into the engine at high pressure. They first travel through a pre-burner, which dumps exhaust into the air.

Liquid-fuelled rocket engine design has largely followed a simple ... The key advantage of burning fuel in this manner is that there is more energy to be gained from that huge pressure increase.

A laboratory prototype of a plasma electric rocket engine based on a magnetic plasma accelerator has been produced by Rosatom ...

SpaceX launched a Falcon 9 rocket, carrying 23 satellites, on February 11 from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. The ...

Three minutes and 10 seconds after liftoff, the rocket's first stage engines shut down, triggering stage separation and ignition of the two hydrogen-burning BE-3U engines powering the rocket's ...

Rather than the soft pop of burning wood, the new video brings ... In contrast, the video captures the calm, flickering glow of the rocket’s engines in a more soothing, less intense way.

Chemical engines put the first satellite into ... First conceived of in 1945, this is a rocket that replaces burning chemical fuel with a nuclear reactor that is used to heat up a propellant.

The ship had successfully separated from the booster and had started its own rocket engines to ascend to orbit ... to be pieces of the spacecraft burning up as they re-entered Earth’s atmosphere ...

NASA completed a full-duration, 500-second hot fire of an RS-25 certification engine Jan. 17, continuing a critical test series to support future SLS (Space Launch System) missions to the moon and ...