Rocket engines consume an immense amount of fuel and oxidizer, and powerful pumps are required to get the propellants injected into the combustion chamber at the necessary pressure. To power these ...

Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space venture counted down to the final hour tonight, but in the end, the company had to postpone the first-ever orbital launch of its heavy-lift New… Read More Blue ...

The core competence is to test the knowledge gained in this way under real conditions in rocket engines and thus generate a knowledge base that will advance space travel worldwide.

Usually, this takes the form of a 2-liter bottle, a tire pump and some cardboard fins ... There wasn’t a throttle on this rocket, the clutch lever was modified to simply open the valve and ...

However, the launch was scrubbed due to an issue with a pump on the fuel pipeline ... To prepare the rocket's RS-68A engines, very cold cryogenic hydrogen propellant flows into the engines before ...

DLR researchers are developing a pump-fed liquid oxygen (LOX) and methane engine. The focus is on investigating the behavior of an entire liquid-fueled rocket cycle and its individual components in a ...