While prototypes of water-powered rocket thrusters and engines have been developed before, and a few have succeeded in launching CubeSats, water has not yet been used as a propellant on a large scale.

In space flight, propellants based on hydrazines are used, among other things, as standard for attitude and control regulation in spacecraft. Like the oxidizer dinitrogen tetroxide (NTO) used for this ...

The M11 test bench and associated M3 physical chemistry laboratory at the DLR Institute of Space Propulsion in Lampoldshausen are used to research and develop new propellants for rocket and ramjet ...

SpaceX said Monday that last month’s Starship explosion was brought on by a cascading series of events caused by propellant leaks — a problem the company says has been addressed ahead of an ...