There was a problem though; solid rocket motors are far too common to be interesting, and even hybrid rocket engines are becoming passé. We’ve never seen a liquid-fuel rocket build before ...

A solid-propellant rocket or solid rocket is a rocket with a rocket engine that uses solid propellants (fuel/oxidizer). The earliest rockets were solid-fuel rockets powered by gunpowder; they were ...

Solid-fuel rockets ... amounts of fuel into the combustion chamber. They ignite when they mingle. So far, the system has been tested only in an experimental rocket engine on the ground.

Eco-friendly alternatives to fossil fuels are venturing beyond Earth—and into space.

Liquid-fuelled rocket engine design has largely followed a simple ... with the aim to produce more thrust from less fuel. We’ll dive into how it works, and how the Japanese test bodes for ...

Russian scientists claim to have developed a plasma electric rocket engine that could enable travel to Mars in just one to ...

and rocket engines from small thrusters to a gigantic F-1 motor from the Saturn V Moon rocket. National Air and Space Museum Rocket, Liquid Fuel, R.H. Goddard 1935, A-Series National Air and Space ...

General Atomics Electromagnetic Systems (GA-EMS) has successfully tested the nuclear fuel that may one day ... innovations peripheral to the rocket engine itself. There are alternatives to ...

A new test of nuclear propellant fuel under space-like conditions has been hailed as a success by NASA and General Atomics ...

Will Edwards is the co-founder and CEO of Firehawk Aerospace, a hybrid rocket engine design and manufacturing ... traditional solid rocket motors in terms of both fuel performance and with its ...