Ninety years ago today, on March 28, 1935, Robert H. Goddard launched the first gyroscopically-stabilized liquid-fueled ...

In a Saturn V rocket engine, liquid oxygen and kerosene fuel are pumped separately into the engine at high pressure. They first travel through a pre-burner, which dumps exhaust into the air.

This engine intended to be used as a torch igniter for a much larger rocket engine ... with a clear supersonic Mach diamond pattern in the exhaust.

A strange swirl in the sky seen over much of Britain and Europe this week wasn’t the result of alien activity but rather a ...

Fusion has long been the propulsion end-goal for interplanetary travel, and a U.K.-based company thinks on its way to ...

Rocket exhaust plume at 30 km as obtained by high-resolution computational fluid dynamics simulations. Temperature varies from 680 K (dark yellow) to 2,400 K (bright yellow). Journalists may use ...

The Flows research group deals with the numerical investigation and modeling of reactive flows and heat transport in rocket engines. The supersonic flow in expansion nozzles and the acoustic emission ...

China says it fired up the world’s largest single-segment solid-fuel rocket engine for the first time, at a ground testing facility in the country’s northwest on Tuesday. The rocket’s 3.5 ...