You've likely watched space shuttles launch using massive rockets, but how exactly do the rockets that are the backbone of ...

When most people think of rockets, they likely imagine something like SpaceX's Raptor engine, or they might recall the Apollo 11 Saturn V rocket that took astronauts to the Moon. Rockets aren't ...

The F-1 used RP-1, a type of kerosene, and liquid oxygen as the propellants. The F-1's 2,500-pound turbopump pumped in the propellants at 42,500 gallons per minute. This engine was constructed in 1963 ...

Cameron County commissioners approved the request this week over the objection of some residents and SpaceX critics.

The XLR-11 was the standard engine for the earlier Bell X-1 and other rocket research aircraft. The Interim powerplant was used in the X-15 from 1959-1961 due to developmental delays of that ...

The fuel in a standard liquid rocket engine doesn’t detonate at all; instead it deflagrates—the technical term for an ignition front that spreads at subsonic speeds, as in piston engines ...

Students have reached a major milestone for Northern Ireland’s space sector with the development of the Kelvin Mk1 liquid ...