Specific impulse measures how effectively a rocket engine creates thrust from the mass it throws out the back, whether by chemical or any other means. The higher the specific impulse of a rocket ...

The scientists at Rosatom have successfully developed a laboratory prototype of a plasma electric rocket engine based on a magnetic plasma accelerator.The engine demonstrates enhanced thrust ...

The thrust chamber - consisting of the injection head, combustion chamber and expansion nozzle - as part of a rocket engine is one of the most thermally and mechanically stressed parts of a rocket and ...

In order to significantly increase the effectiveness, performance and specific impulse of future rocket engines, high combustion chamber ... development of space transportation systems. The thrust ...

SpaceX has shared dramatic footage and images of its Super Heavy booster firing up ahead of its eighth test flight.

Of course this was an expensive proposition; a motor with 12 pounds of thrust cost somewhere in the range of four figures. Printing a rocket engine has a few advantages over traditional ...

Russia's State Atomic Energy Corporation, Rosatom, recently developed a new spacecraft engine with impressive specifications.

The Raptor 1 had a 185tf thrust, a 350s specific impulse ... Level Raptor engines and three are RVac Raptor engines. Meanwhile, the Super Heavy rocket has many more engines.