Have you ever wondered how rockets work? Rockets may look futuristic, but the basic idea behind them is surprisingly simple. A rocket is a carefully controlled explosion. Fuel and an oxidizer burn ...

A rocket’s cluster of engines firing in flight produces a bright-purple exhaust plume and thick golden smoke against a sunset sky over the ocean. Humans can leave Earth on rockets powered by chemical ...

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Seattle-area startup is getting ready for on-orbit demonstration of its rotating detonation rocket engine technology. Read More ...

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The Indian Space Research Organisation has initiated a major propulsion technology program in collaboration with Hindustan Aeronautics Limited and the National Aerospace Laboratories. This tri-agency ...

These four flight unit electrospray thrusters were delivered by MIT Space Propulsion Laboratory to NASA for the upcoming Green Propulsion Dual Mode (GPDM) mission. Cambridge, Mass. -- MIT engineers ...

The Initium Technologies co-founder learned early that technically serious work can still point toward the wrong business, a ...

Space startup Astrobotic put its rotating detonation rocket engine (RDRE) to the test for the first time, demonstrating a potentially groundbreaking technology that generates thrust by supersonic ...

What does it take for a student rocketry team to move beyond commercially available components and build its own rocket motor ...