The Soyuz spacecraft has been a cornerstone of space exploration for decades, serving as the reliable workhorse for ...

Engineering students from Kingston University in London have made headlines by building a rocket engine that runs on an ...

The Kuaizhou 11 carrier rocket model carried out its first successful flight at the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwestern China's Gobi Desert, Dec 7, 2022. [Photo by Wang Jiangbo/Provided to ...

Orienspace, a private space company that makes the world's mightiest solid-propellant carrier rocket, has begun to develop a new, liquid-fuel model, according to the new type's chief designer. Huang ...

More information: Dale Thomas et al, Addressing challenges to engineering feasibility of the centrifugal nuclear thermal rocket, Acta Astronautica (2025). DOI: 10.1016/j.actaastro.2025.05.007 ...

A giant white streak seen in the sky over America was likely caused by fuel dumping from a new rocket launched by China, astronomers said. The white plume appeared at around 1:25am ET on 17 May ...

ZQ-2E, an enhanced version of the ZQ-2 - world's first liquid methane launch vehicle to reach orbit - lifted off from Dongfeng Commercial Space Launch Site in Northwest China for its first flight ...

At least in the case of model rockets and military ordinance. Modern space-faring rockets don't always rely on fins as they can reposition their individual exhaust nozzles instead.

A new test of nuclear propellant fuel under space-like conditions has been hailed as a success by NASA and General Atomics Electromagnetic Systems (GA-EMS), in what is considered one more step on ...

First conceived of in 1945, this is a rocket that replaces burning chemical fuel with a nuclear reactor that is used to heat up a propellant. This propellant is most likely hydrogen, though ...

The seventh test flight of the rocket, which is intended to be fully reusable and able to carry huge satellite payloads into orbit—eventually as much as 200 tons, more than 20 times what the ...