After a rocket uses up its fuel, the tank generally lingers behind, either plummeting back to Earth or floating through space for eternity. Because the Ouroborous-3 burns most of its structure, ...

Space shuttle Endeavour’s giant external orange fuel tank, ET-94, sits alongside two 149-foot solid rocket boosters at the California Science Center on Wednesday.

Three workers were injured and nearby residents reported that “a huge boom” shook their windows during testing of a LandSpace rocket fuel tank in Shanghai on Monday evening. The Chinese start ...

After a rocket uses up its fuel, the tank generally just becomes dead weight, but a prototype rocket that burns its own fuselage as propellant could solve that problem. By Leah Crane.

The object, a Breeze-M fuel tank, was part of Russia's Yamal 402 geostationary communications satellite. The tank has been orbiting since the Dec. 8, 2012, launch, SpaceWeather.com said.

It’s a relatively new choice for rocket fuel, and it debuted in 2007 with a successful NASA engine test. Burning methane creates about 10 percent more specific impulse—the rocket equivalent of ...

So just how well did the SLS tank stand up to the most punishing test yet? Pretty well, actually. According to NASA engineers, the tank withstood over 260% of the load stress it should ever have ...

The SLS rocket's two solid-fuel boosters consume 5.5 tons of propellant per second. The heat generated by the boosters during their two minutes of operation, if converted into electricity, would ...

In operation for 30 years, NASA's space shuttle was described by the space agency as "the world's first reusable spacecraft" and was "launched like a rocket, maneuvered in Earth orbit like a ...