The slowed-down video shows the rocket’s 33 Raptor engines firing up as the enormous 120-meter-tall vehicle leaves the launchpad. With the rocket pumping out a colossal 17 million pounds of ...

Chinese scientists say they have made a big breakthrough in rocket propulsion technology that could ... Because solid-fuel rockets are cheaper than liquid-fuel rockets, the new engine could ...

While one version of Neutron's 3D-printed rocket engine Archimedes was hot fired in August last year, BSR noted that a new, 200 kg lighter version two of the power plant appeared in January this year, ...

Chinese scientists claim to have found a new way of injecting helium into rocket engines, which could be used to make missiles that are much harder to detect or intercept. The new technology was ...

As a result, helium, the ultralight gas used to pressurise liquid rocket fuel, has become an emblem of engineering frailty. Now, Chinese scientists report they have harnessed that very flaw to ...

Moscow: In what could come as a giant leap in spacecraft technology, Russia is working on a new plasma-based rocket engine system which might cut travel time to Mars from existing 7 months to just one ...

ISRO said it has achieved a breakthrough in rocket engine technology with the development of a lightweight ... The collaborative effort involved the Liquid Propulsion Systems Centre (LPSC) at ...

India’s largest engineering firm Larsen & Toubro is in preliminary talks with American billionaire Jeff Bezos-owned space exploration firm Blue Origin to supply orbital launch capabilities, such as ...

This story has been changed to clarify that it is the world's largest single-segment solid rocket. China says ... four times as powerful as the liquid fuel engine on the Long March 5, the largest ...

Liquid fuelled engines are throttleable and monstrously powerful, but highly complex. Meanwhile, solid rocket engines are simple and cheap, but once you light them, they’re going full-bore until ...

The rocket’s fourth stage – PS4 or L-2.5 – has two restartable liquid-fuelled engines for precise orbital ... this may simply be to draw attention away from the Microsat-R spacecraft and ...