Aerospike rocket engines are the stuff of legend in the space industry. Conceived in the 1960s, their unique spiked-nozzle design promises better efficiency, reusability, and performance at all ...

The founder of a New York-based aerospace startup developing high-tech rocket thrusters that have ... s nuclear fusion-enhanced plasma thruster engine technology to market, according to the ...

CNET’s expert staff reviews and rates dozens of new products and services each month, building on more than a quarter century of expertise. At this point, being fast is beside the point for the ...

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 ...

More recently, the company started developing two other products in parallel: a Hall-effect electric thruster for spacecraft and a second-stage hybrid rocket engine. “Pulsar has built a ...

The joint plant will develop and produce small jet and rocket engines with “the goal to penetrate the U.S. military market in order to supply jet engines for small airborne platforms,” the ...

The Starship rocket system is the largest ever built. At 403 feet tall, it’s nearly 100 feet taller than the Statue of Liberty atop its pedestal. It has the most engines ever in a rocket booster ...

No new target date has been announced. Firefly Aerospace will launch its Alpha rocket for the sixth time ever on Saturday morning (March 15), and you can watch the action live. Alpha is scheduled ...

Credit: Rocket Lab HOUSTON — Rocket Lab says the ... including its Archimedes engines, while work at Wallops faced infrastructure challenges, such as difficulties transporting Neutron components.

SPACE X IS ABOUT TO SEND UP ANOTHER FALCON NINE ROCKET. THIS ONE WILL HAVE 21 STARLINK ... TWO, ONE. IGNITION ENGINES WILL POWER AND LIFTOFF. GO. SPACEX! GO! STARLINK. VEHICLE IS PITCHING DOWNRANGE.

Setting expectations ... Gilmour's Eris rocket is made of three stages powered by hybrid engines consuming a solid fuel and a liquid oxidizer. Eris is designed to haul payloads of up to 672 pounds ...

Houston-based Venus Aerospace, meanwhile, is developing a rocket-based combined-cycle propulsion system that combines a rotating detonation rocket engine with a ramjet.