China’s Space Transportation tests a Mach 4 detonation ramjet engine, aiming to cut flight time from Beijing to New York to ...

A company called Rocketdyne made the H-1 engine for NASA. It was really powerful because it burned a special fuel called RP-1, which is like kerosene, along with liquid oxygen. This engine created 188 ...

A ROCKET jet has hit a dizzying new speed of over ... this required high efficiency from the powerplant. Turbofan engines were rejected due to their larger cross-section producing excessive ...

Water rockets work on the premise that if water is evacuated from one side of a container ... There wasn’t a throttle on this rocket, the clutch lever was modified to simply open the valve ...

"We can learn from failure. We will take advantage of this opportunity to develop a more reliable rocket." A test of an engine for Japan's upcoming Epsilon rocket ended in an explosion on Tuesday ...

UK engineers developing a novel propulsion system say their technology has passed another key milestone. The Sabre air-breathing rocket engine is designed to drive space planes to orbit and take ...

The Sabre engine is part jet, part rocket, and relies on a novel pre-cooler heat-exchanger technology. This pre-cooler system will begin a new phase of testing in the next month or so in Colorado ...

Japan’s space agency had been testing the engine combustion of its Epsilon S rocket when what it described as an “abnormality” occurred shortly after ignition. Footage from NHK, the public ...

Reaction claims its hybrid jet-rocket engine could one day enable a new era of hypersonic flight – where any destination around the world is never more than a few hours away – leading some to ...

TOKYO (AP) — The engine for a new flagship small Japanese rocket burst into flames Tuesday during a combustion test, causing no injury or damage to the outside but destroying the engine and ...

It is a hybrid between a conventional jet engine, and a rocket system powered by liquid oxygen. The system will be reusable, much like an aeroplane, with no need to jettison expensive fuel tanks ...