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To get humans to Mars, SpaceX is building the mighty Starship spacecraft, powered by the Raptor engine - one of the first to be powered by methane and designed to be reused 1,000 times ...
Welcome to Edition 8.02 of the Rocket Report! It's worth taking a moment to recognize an important anniversary in the history ...
Aerojet, a GenCorp (NYSE:GY) company, announced today that it has completed manufacturing and assembly of an advanced 5,500-lbf Liquid Oxygen (LOX) Liquid Methane (LCH4) rocket engine.
Intuitive Machines senior propulsion engineer Rob Morehead takes a look inside a rocket engine’s nozzle looking for anomalies caused during the combustion of super-cold liquid oxygen and liquid ...
NASA Completes Altitude Testing of Aerojet Advanced Liquid Oxygen/Liquid Methane Rocket Engine by SpaceRef May 5, 2010 July 15, 2024 Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X ...
Building a flight-capable liquid-fuelled rocket engine is another thing entirely, but the Purdue Space Program is up to the task. The result of their hard work is Boomie Zoomie, a rocket which ...
SpaceX's Raptor engine is one of the most advanced rocket engines ever built, and it’s rewriting the rules of space travel. In this video, we break down what makes the Raptor so revolutionary — from ...
A SpaceX Starship upper stage exploded during ramp-up to an expected engine test firing at the company's Starbase facility on ...
The two-stage Zhuque-2 rocket is powered by four TQ-12 engines on its first stage, consuming methane and liquid oxygen propellants to generate nearly 600,000 pounds of thrust at liftoff.
China has completed a test of its largest-thrust vacuum liquid oxygen-methane engine, which was designed for use on a commercial rocket, the engine maker said Thursday. Developed by the Chinese ...
The combustion chamber burned for 10 seconds, marking engineering progress but also demonstrating liquid biomethane as a sustainable rocket fuel, Interstellar representatives said in a Dec. 7 ...
Aerojet, a GenCorp company, announced today that NASA has successfully completed altitude testing of Aerojet’s advanced 5500-lbf Liquid Oxygen (LOX)/Liquid Methane (LCH4) Rocket Engine at NASA ...