Most any rocket engine you’d find on a spacecraft – save for solid or hybrid rockets – use an engine system that’s fairly complex. Because of the intense heat, the fuel is circulated ...

3D printing is an incredible tool for prototyping and development, but the properties of the materials can be a limiting factor for functional parts. [Sam Rogers] and colleagues at [AX ...

The German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt; DLR) is taking a significant step in the development of reusable space transportation systems with its innovative LUMEN project.

Venus Aerospace, a leader in hypersonics deep-tech startups aimed at revolutionizing high-speed flight, has successfully achieved ignition of its ‘VDR2’ engine. VDR2 offers a single engine solution ...

Thrust chambers that develop more than 3 million horsepower, combustion chambers in which temperatures of over 3,000 degrees Celsius and pressures of up to over 100 bar prevail: the investigation of ...

China has made progress on a powerful rocket engine to power its new reusable rockets. A 130-ton-thrust, reusable kerosene-liquid oxygen engine aced a pair of consecutive ground ignition tests on ...