In the ’60s, rocket engine design and manufacturing company Rocketdyne had tried to make the J-2T Aerospike, a toroidal aerospike concept intended as an improvement over the Rocketdyne J-2 engine for ...

China successfully conducted five rocket engine tests in a single day, signalling the implementation of major aerospace ...

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 ...

On Twitter Elon Musk said that the team had turned off one engine ... power units, should produce roughly 70% more thrust off the launch pad than the N1. Even the US space agency Nasa's new mega ...

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

offering the potential to power spacecraft at unprecedented speeds. Pulsar Fusion's ambitious goal is to construct the largest and most practical nuclear fusion rocket engine to date. Their 8 ...

Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket successfully completed a critical milestone marking the final major test before its first ...

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.

Ad Astra Rocket Company has spent over ... By combining high-power nuclear reactors with high-efficiency plasma engines, the two companies aim to develop a propulsion system that could ...

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 ...