The motor that powered Virgin Galactic's VSS unity into space has been donated to the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum in Washington, DC. In a formal ceremony on Thursday, the hybrid ...

Once launched, SpaceShipTwo’s hybrid rocket motor, predictably named RocketMotorTwo, activates and propels the aircraft into the mesosphere, an outer layer of Earth’s atmosphere.

Utah State University researchers, led by Dr. Stephen Whitmore, are developing hybrid rocket motors. These motors use clean, non-toxic fuels for Artemis missions, differing from Apollo's approach.

Scheurer Swiss GmbH (Volketswil, Switzerland), a composite company, reported on July 5 that it has supported the Daedalus project, a concept pursued by six mechanical engineering students from public ...

BLASTING off to the edge of space in SpaceShipTwo, Virgin Galactic’s commercial spacecraft, may be one step closer after the successful testing last week of a new solid-liquid hybrid rocket motor.

Later this year a rocket incorporating the new motor will make an attempt on the UK rocket altitude record, which stands at 10,540 m (34,579 ft) and is held by the Mars group. The term hybrid is used ...