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.

President Ronald Reagan immediately appointed a commission to investigate and report on the circumstances that led up to the ...

The HVGP is equipped with a solid-fuel rocket engine, which propels its warhead while maintaining high speed as it approaches its target. From a strategic perspective, hypersonic weapons are ...

Once the original rockets had burned out, there was no power available to correct the orbit. Last week Lockheed Aircraft Corp. announced development of a rocket engine that can fire a second time ...

PJoe Mahon rotesters staged an act of civil disobedience at Minnesota’s largest military contractor Wednesday morning. The action at Alliant Techsystems in Edina, Minn., led to 28 arrests.

This study presents the development of a methodology for designing neuro-adaptive robust controllers based on a reference model associated with an artificial neural network of radial basis functions ...

Despite concerns voiced by engineers at the booster's contractor, Morton Thiokol ... segments of the solid rocket boosters were, in effect, made stiff by the cold and did not have enough flexibility ...

This fuel is more efficient, providing better energy compared to older systems. Composite propellant is a mix of solid chemicals that burn together to create the power needed to launch the missile.

An international team of engineers and space scientists has used a variety of assumptions, techniques, and math principles to ...