An upgraded version of one of the solid rocket boosters being used for NASA's Space Launch System (SLS) experienced an ...

Engineers didn't immediately acknowledge the issue during that broadcast, apart from one controller uttering "Whoa," followed ...

Aluminum and water is usually a boring combination, but light a mixture of nanoaluminum and ice and the results are explosive.

Officials are investigating an unexpected explosion that occurred during a solid rocket booster test in Utah last week, ...

Adranos is best known for creating a solid rocket fuel dubbed ALITEC, made of an aluminum-lithium alloy. The company, founded at Purdue University in 2015, ...

The facility will produce an aluminum-lithium alloy solid rocket fuel called ALITEC by Sandra Erwin September 8, 2022 January 23, 2023. Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X; ...

The smell of melting plastic filled the work area of a local space company early one morning. It was the smell of recycled plastic beads being converted into solid rocket fuel grains. This is not ...

WASHINGTON — Defense contractor Anduril Industries acquired Adranos, a manufacturer of solid rocket motors, the companies announced June 25. The terms of the deal were not disclosed.

Then in 1946 Caltech’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, working on a radically new solid rocket fuel, tried mixing an oxidizing agent with rubber.

Lowdermilk said that by using a recycled plastic solid fuel in the core, it allows for close to 1000 less propellant that would otherwise go into a liquid fueled rocket. This in turn allows for ...