In 2023, Sierra Space announced the VR35K-A had completed engine component testing, which allowed the company to advance to the full engine hot fire testing campaign. Next, Sierra Space will continue ...

The vehicle's first stage will land vertically, similar to a Falcon 9 rocket, and the second stage, which has a novel metallic heat shield and engine design ... test of the liquid oxygen and ...

The 2027 launch date for the Demonstration Rocket ... operational engine would replace helium with more energetic liquid hydrogen fuel. The DRACO team has not signed off on a design for BWXT ...

The point of the design is to use less fuel while also ... that it can then compare to the performance of traditional liquid rocket engines – like those used in the Space Launch System.

Wright suggested that it should have been obvious that Russia had no experience with liquid-fueled engines, neither in the Makeyev bureau nor the Moscow Institute of Thermal Technology, which, before ...

"NTP systems work by pumping a liquid propellant ... be two-to-three times more efficient than conventional chemical rocket engines," Back continued. "We are excited to continue our collaboration ...

NICOLE GRAJEWSKI is a Fellow in the Nuclear Policy Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and an Associate with the Project on Managing the Atom at the Harvard Kennedy School. She ...

Engineers developed an engine prototype which could reach unprecedented speeds, cutting down interplanetary travel time.

Rosatom scientists have developed a laboratory prototype for a plasma electro-reactive rocket engine based on a magnetic ...

BEIJING -- Delivery of China's liquid oxygen kerosene engine, named Liqing-2, has been completed, its developer CAS Space ...

A laboratory prototype of a plasma electric rocket engine based on a magnetic plasma accelerator has been produced by Rosatom scientists, who say it could slash travel time to Mars to one or two ...