Conceived not long after the first Chevy small blocks hit American streets, the RL10 was the type of rocket engine you could ...

Modern spaceflight rests on a deceptively simple idea: a machine that carries its own fuel and oxidizer, then hurls exhaust backward fast enough to push itself forward. The person who first turned ...

Aerojet, a GenCorp (NYSE: GY) company, announced today that NASA has successfully completed altitude testing of Aerojet’s advanced 5500-lbf Liquid Oxygen (LOX)/Liquid Methane (LCH4) Rocket Engine at ...

A new rocket propulsion technology demonstration has marked an important milestone, achieving “mainstage” or constant full-power performance for the first time. Called the Integrated Powerhead ...

Go back a generation of development, and excepting the shuttle-derived systems, all liquid rockets used RP-1 (aka kerosene) for their first stage. Now it seems everybody and their dog wants to fuel ...

They were designed with its Noyron Large Computational Engineering Model and 3D printed with a high-temperature copper alloy.

China Aerospace Science and Technology Corp (CASC) has achieved a major milestone in space exploration with the successful completion of ground tests for its 130-ton reusable liquid oxygen kerosene ...

There never was a better time to do business in space exploration. One needs to look no further than the many space startups presently operating in this industry to realize that's so. Another proof of ...

The Laboratory for Optical Physics and Engineering sits in the heart of the University’s campus in Urbana. Many students walk past the building every day and may be unaware of the fact that, on the ...

The latest hot-fire of NASA’s Artemis moon rocket engine at Stennis Space Center was more than a dramatic plume on the ...