Houston-based Venus Aerospace flew a rotating detonation rocket engine last week, proving a key technology for the high-speed ...

Details were published on May 6 in the Journal of Aerospace Power, a peer-reviewed Chinese-language publication, according to ...

In its place, NASA installed E2061 into the Engine 4 position on the Artemis II core stage. This engine was the final one built for the shuttle. NASA certified the engine for flight in 2008, and it ...

CEDAR PARK, Texas, April 23, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Firefly Aerospace, the leader in end-to-end responsive space services, today announced the company was awarded a contract from the Air Force ...

A second-stage rocket nozzle extension would be fixed and is intended to improve performance and reduce costs. Credit: Firefly The Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) has awarded Firefly ...

Today we're looking at how the regenerative cooling channels on Space Shuttle's main combustion chamber were manufactured. They used a combination of conventional machining with electroplating ...

The SpaceX Falcon 9's Merlin engines use rocket-grade kerosene (RP-1) fuel with liquid oxygen as the ... With a powerful turbopump, the combustion chamber can be supplied with more or less fuel ...

The Stoke Space rocket engine test lights ... s Block 2 (flight layout) stage 1 engine, and this engine architecture — called full-flow staged combustion (FFSC) — is considered particularly ...

The AFRL contract will explore ‘digital engineering’ (DE) concepts related to Archimedes, Rocket Lab’s new oxidizer-rich staged combustion ... chamber components, valve housings, and engine ...

the E-2 liquid rocket engine was created. This is a closed combustion engine with a combustion chamber made of a copper-chromium-zirconium alloy, which reduces costs and dependence on supply chains.