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

The satellites, which are maintained in the proper position about 22,500 miles above Earth by firing small rocket thrusters ... for gauging the quantity of propellant in a satellite's fuel tank. The ...

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 ...

The rocket carried the Michibiki No. 6 satellite ... facilities at the Tanegashima Space Center, such as increasing fuel tank capacity, to enable launches as frequently as once per month.

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 ...

After lift-off, the rocket quickly burns through its fuel. Once the tanks are empty, they break away from the rest of the rocket and fall back to Earth. When the astronauts reach the ISS ...