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

Every drop of the hydrazine rocket fuel is worth more than its weight in gold ... The technique also might be used to help design satellite fuel tanks that better control the position of liquid ...

When a rocket motor using solid propellant is lit it continues to burn until all of the fuel is consumed. That is not the case with this design ... to the oxygen tank. There is a nozzle on ...

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

In the meantime, NASA is busy getting all of the rocket's components in order, like its gigantic fuel tanks. Watch the painstaking process of months of work crammed into 60 seconds. It's pretty ...

Credit: General Atomics A new test of nuclear propellant fuel under space-like conditions ... kind and help move us closer to a real rocket of this design being used to propel cargo and even ...

Plus, the shape of a rocket has to be aerodynamic to reduce ... looking for other reasons besides being the best design choice. The fuel tanks were more slender than other rockets, since it ...