A U.K. space tech company has revealed a secret project that could change how humans travel between planets. After ten years ...

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

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

The shape tapers toward the back, ensuring that the exhaust gases flow along its ... In the ’60s, rocket engine design and ...

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.

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 ...

UK startup Pulsar Fusion today unveiled “Sunbird,” a nuclear fusion-powered rocket ... the engine could temporarily become the hottest place in the solar system, creating exhaust speeds ...

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 ...

(2024), highlights the advantages of hybrid rockets, including their simplicity, safety, and cost-effectiveness compared to traditional liquid and solid rocket engines. These benefits have led to ...

A strange "illuminated swirl" was spotted in the night sky on Monday, leading many to wonder what was causing it.