Landspace tests 220-ton methane engine for future heavy-lift launchers Chinese launch startup Landspace says it has completed a long-duration full-system hot-fire test of its new 220-ton-class methane ...

The only people who value ease of maintenance at a cheap cost to manufacture, more than NASA, are people cruising Craigslist and eBay for a low-mileage 350 small-block Chevy motor at three in the ...

Ursa Major Technologies has completed the first hot-fire tests of its Hadley H13 liquid rocket engine, a milestone the company says could support reusable hypersonic test vehicles and smaller launch ...

When most people think of rockets, they likely imagine something like SpaceX's Raptor engine, or they might recall the Apollo 11 Saturn V rocket that took astronauts to the Moon. Rockets aren't ...

Click to open image viewer. The Merlin 1D engine, with up to 190,000 pounds of thrust, is the powerhouse of the SpaceX Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy rockets. The engine uses liquid oxygen (LOX) and RP-1 ...

When building a model rocket, it can be fun to get into the maths of it all—calculating the expected performance of your build, and then seeing how it measures up in the real world. To aid in that ...

The reusability of different parts of a space rocket has opened the doors to a literal flood of launches to Earth orbit and beyond. Thanks to the fact that space companies now no longer have to make a ...

Click to open image viewer. This is a 1/4 cutaway of an F-1 liquid fuel rocket engine. The F-1 engine produced 1.5 million pounds of thrust and was the powerplant for the first stage of the giant ...

Humans have achieved groundbreaking feats in space exploration, reaching distant stretches of space with missions like Voyager 1. However, none of this would have been possible without rockets.