Space shuttle Endeavour’s giant external orange fuel tank, ET-94, sits alongside two 149-foot solid rocket boosters at the California Science Center on Wednesday.

After a rocket uses up its fuel, the tank generally lingers behind, either plummeting back to Earth or floating through space for eternity. Because the Ouroborous-3 burns most of its structure, ...

After a rocket uses up its fuel, the tank generally just becomes dead weight, but a prototype rocket that burns its own fuselage as propellant could solve that problem By Leah Crane 10 January 2024 ...

The tank is flight-ready. The next step is to conduct a “full-duration hot fire test” of the company’s proprietary MAREVL rocket engine, as the company prepares to use the engine to launch a ...

It’s a relatively new choice for rocket fuel, and it debuted in 2007 with a successful NASA engine test. Burning methane creates about 10 percent more specific impulse—the rocket equivalent of ...

The object, a Breeze-M fuel tank, was part of Russia's Yamal 402 geostationary communications satellite. The tank has been orbiting since the Dec. 8, 2012, launch, SpaceWeather.com said.

So just how well did the SLS tank stand up to the most punishing test yet? Pretty well, actually. According to NASA engineers, the tank withstood over 260% of the load stress it should ever have ...

Ukrainian paratroopers reportedly took out two Russian tanks using Swedish and Ukrainian rocket launchers. ... 155 cruise missiles, 15 warships, 2,699 motor vehicles and fuel tankers, ...

The SLS rocket's two solid-fuel boosters consume 5.5 tons of propellant per second. The heat generated by the boosters during their two minutes of operation, if converted into electricity, would ...

The leak was first observed this morning, Saturday, September 3, when the rocket’s tanks were being filled with liquid oxygen and liquid hydrogen which act as fuel for the launch.