One of his more interesting builds is his series on building rocket engines out of PVC pipe written in conjunction with [Chuck Knight]. For the propellent grains, the PVC rocket didn’t use the ...

It features a new generation of methane-driven rocket engines and will ultimately lift ... in a rapid unscheduled disassembly, scattering parts all over the Caribbean. Much of the rocket burned ...

The clear resin parts also allow the combustion observed and more accurate conclusions to be drawn from every test. This engine intended to be used as a torch igniter for a much larger rocket engine.

and can be fired while the two parts of the rocket are still attached, without the need for an interstage shield and even stage separation engines. Whereas the engines of Nova’s first stage were ...

The 184-foot-tall (56-meter) rocket lifted off from Kourou, French Guiana, at 11:24 am EST (16:24 UTC). Twin solid-fueled boosters and a hydrogen-fueled core stage engine powered the Ariane 6 through ...