An international team of engineers and space scientists has used a variety of assumptions, techniques, and math principles to ...

In the meantime, NASA is busy getting all of the rocket's components in order, like its gigantic fuel tanks. Watch the painstaking process of months of work crammed into 60 seconds. It's pretty ...

We are fascinated by the hybrid rocket engine which [Ben Krasnow] built and tested in his shop. It is actually using a hollow cylinder of acrylic as the fuel, with gaseous oxygen as an oxidizer.

The Evolution of the Falcon 9: Ever since its debut in 2010, SpaceX’s workhorse rocket – the Falcon 9 – has had many major upgrades to its systems, most notably to its fuel tanks and engines.

The power pushes the ship away from Earth’s surface ... They can be reused. External tank: provides the fuel to finish the rocket’s launch. Usually, this breaks apart in Earth’s upper ...