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

The simple answer is, it’s an exceptionally versatile rocket fuel. Some formulations of it are used as a hypergolic propellant, which means it will ignite immediately when combined with an ...

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 Chinese commercial space launch company is continuing its success with a small solid rocket ahead of a more ambitious launch later this year. The Ceres-1 four-stage solid propellant rocket ...

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 ...

Among others, research into hypergolic fuel combinations based on hydrogen peroxide as an oxidizer and ionic liquids as fuel, is conducted. The implementation of hydrogen peroxide-based propellants is ...