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Welcome to Edition 8.02 of the Rocket Report! It's worth taking a moment to recognize an important anniversary in the history ...
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.
The rocket's engine uses a propellant made of liquid oxygen and liquid methane, and it is more environmentally friendly, reducing the required cleaning time from days to hours - a feature vital to ...
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 ...
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 ...
It’s fuelled by liquid methane, a first for a university-built rocket. The craft is constructed out of 6″ aluminium pipe sections, which were a best-case trade-off between weight, cost, and ...
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 ...
Capable of lifting up to 13,000kg, Archimedes is an oxygen-rich staged combustion engine powered by liquid oxygen and methane that is designed for rapid reusability.
The rocket engine, dubbed Zero, was kickstarted in a 10-second “static fire test” in Japan’s Hokkaido Spaceport, the startup Interstellar Technologies Inc. (IST) said in a statement.