We are fascinated by the hybrid rocket engine which [Ben Krasnow] built and tested in his shop. It is actually using a hollow cylinder of acrylic as the fuel, with gaseous oxygen as an oxidizer.

Vortex cooling works by injecting oxygen into the combustion chamber tangentially, just inside the nozzle of ... torch igniter for a much larger rocket engine. Fuel is injected into the front ...

Every drop of the hydrazine rocket fuel is worth more than its weight in gold ... "The exact same physics, the wicking action, is responsible for positioning fuel inside the tank," Collicott said.

NASA Space Launch System, the rocket system that will eventually provide ... NASA recently put a version of the SLS liquid hydrogen fuel tank to the ultimate test, pushing it far beyond its ...

A team of engineers from NASA and Boeing came up with a unique propellant tank design and manufacturing process to build one of the largest composite rocket fuel tanks ever made. The 18-foot-diameter ...

The tank was basically "breathing through a straw," Berger wrote. As the pressure in the jet's cargo bay increased relative to the pressure inside the rocket's fuel tank, the Falcon 1 started to ...