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 ...

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

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 is the H-1 liquid-fuel rocket ...

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 ...

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 ...

Interestingly, the rocket engine was created entirely by an advanced artificial intelligence system. LEAP 71’s “Noyron,” a powerful Large Computational Engineering Model, autonomously generated the ...

A French launch startup that recently closed a funding round is seeking defense applications for its hybrid propulsion technology.

Proving that you can't keep a good technology down, Reaction Engines' Synergetic Air-Breathing Rocket Engine (SABRE) has a new lease on life after a British-led consortium announced Invictus, a new ...

Ever since SpaceX made reusability the most desirable trait of a spacefaring operation, all the companies working in this industry have shifted their attention toward making hardware that can fly to ...

China to debut reusable Long March 10-derived rocket in first half of 2026 China is aiming for a first launch of a reusable, ...