China successfully launched a classified satellite on Thursday (Jan. 23), but a spent booster from the mission fell shockingly close to a family home.

A large number of these were made by older, highly toxic hypergolic Long March series ... Last week it hosted a Jielong-3 solid propellant rocket launch and aims to facilitate around 10 launches ...

A solid-propellant rocket or solid rocket is a rocket with a rocket engine that uses solid propellants (fuel/oxidizer). The earliest rockets were solid-fuel rockets powered by gunpowder; they were ...

Bell gets around the problem by using hypergolic fuels ... A second charge of solid propellant to restart the turbopump was comparatively simple. But since the rocket would be fired while in ...