It’s now the highest undergraduate-built liquid-fueled rocket ever flown, climbing 9 miles high at speeds reaching Mach 1.5. Reading time: Reading time 3 minutes They call themselves the Cygnus ...

Researchers at the Indian Institute of Technology Madras are now one step closer to developing a vertical take-off and ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. This appears to be one of the first ...

Chinese aerospace company Orienspace is now two for two when it comes to launching the largest solid-propellant rocket in the ...

Isro prepares for a landmark launch as its most powerful rocket gears up to lift the nation's heaviest communication satellite yet ...

The rocket, a reaction-propulsion device that carries all of its propellants internally, has been around for almost a millennium since its invention in China. But the twentieth-century saw a ...

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 ...

The ESA project has proven that linerless CFRP tanks for Ariane 6 rocket can handle the extreme temperatures of liquid H2 and ...

Back in 1928. Kansas City Chemist J. C. Patrick stirred up a gummy mess of sulphur, carbon and hydrogen in an attempt to find a better, cheaper antifreeze. What he got was not antifreeze but one of ...

Solid-fuel rockets are the dream weapons of military rocketeers. They have no pumps or valves to go wrong and are always ready to fire. Their big trouble is that they are harder to control than liquid ...