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SpaceX's Raptor engine is one of the most advanced rocket engines ever built, and it’s rewriting the rules of space travel. In this video, we break down what makes the Raptor so revolutionary ...

For rocket engine development—with design and testing cycles measured in decades—this is incredibly ambitious. But the timeline is achievable because of how Noyron works, Kayser says.

"The mission-duty-cycle engine test is actually two months ahead of schedule. So I think it really demonstrates how the 3D-printing approach to building a rocket is lightning fast." Moving fast ...

Aerojet, a GenCorp Inc. company, announced today that America’s only staged combustion liquid rocket booster engine currently in development achieved an important milestone July 12 at NASA’s ...

Liquid-fuelled rocket engine design has largely followed a simple template since the development of the German V-2 rocket in the middle of World War 2. Propellant and oxidizer are mixed in a combus… ...

The aerospike engine—specifically the conical aerospike—looks quite similar to a conventional rocket and functions using largely the same principle: exchanging thermal energy for kinetic energy.

Japanese officials with the Honda Motor Company have revealed more details about their plans to potentially expand into the rocket launch business. Founded in 1946 as a motorcycle company, Honda ...