Seen as a crucial step in rocket engine development, the test run involves dozens of mission types, each designed to assess ...

This aerospike engine —fueled by a combination of cryogenic liquid oxygen and kerosene — delivers an impressive 5,000 Newtons ...

A new family of engines aims to harness the power of detonation shockwaves to create ever-faster rocket engines ... or poor thrust continuity and high Mach operability (meaning it doesn’t ...

VASIMR scales well with larger power outputs—on the order of 100kW or more could significantly increase the rocket's efficiency ... to keep pushing—like the engines they hope to fly someday.

While classic combustion in rocket engines takes place at ... promising is the so-called rotating detonation engine in which detonation waves propagate continuously around an annular combustion ...

There probably never was a better time for rocket engine fans to be alive ... This plane is to be powered by an RDRE engine. Sadly, as it often happens with such bold ideas, it will probably ...

The Stoke Space rocket engine test lights up a vertical test stand in Moses Lake, Wash. (Stoke Space Photo) Stoke Space successfully hotfired its first-stage rocket engine on a new vertical test ...

a high-power electric rocket engine that provides primary propulsion for a variety of missions; and SpaceNukes' Kilopower reactor technology, which has been developed over the past 10 years under ...