A SpaceX Merlin engine being tested ... first Starship orbital attempt (see below). To keep a rocket pointed toward space, engineers use design elements like fins and gimbaled (movable) engines.

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 ...

Description: Project BLERP aims to design and construct a reusable liquid rocket engine and launch stand that can be re-used and studied by future students at University of Colorado Boulder. The goal ...

HICKAM will design and manufacture a modular, compact, and portable testing platform for characterizing hybrid rocket engines. The team will also manufacture two 300 lbf hybrid rocket motors to prove ...

Increasing demand for solid rocket motors in the defense sector Solid rocket motors are used in launch vehicles to carry payloads into space efficiently in the space sector. They provide the ...

RTX’s Raytheon, in partnership with US company Ursa Major, has completed a missile flight test using their advanced long-range solid rocket motor for the US Army. The collaboration's expertise ...

"The innovative manufacturing techniques we employ are yielding agile solid rocket motor solutions with the design flexibility needed to expand the capabilities of the U.S. military,” Jablonsky ...