A new test of nuclear propellant fuel under space-like conditions has been hailed as a success by NASA and General Atomics ...

Russian scientists claim to have developed a plasma electric rocket engine that could enable travel to Mars in just one to ...

From a thermodynamic point of view, detonations are more efficient than the more commonly known deflagration (classic combustion). While classic combustion in rocket engines takes place at constant ...

Russia's State Atomic Energy Corporation, Rosatom, recently developed a new spacecraft engine with impressive specifications.

Liquid-fuelled rocket engine design has largely followed a simple ... Source: JAXA However, there are potential efficiency gains to be had by combusting fuel in a detonation instead.

NASA has just tested a game-changing rocket engine that could revolutionize space travel. The Rotating Detonation Engine (RDE ...

Systems expertise for the European space industry With this systems expertise, the DLR research team supports the German and European space industry in particular in the development of innovative and ...

The newly tested engines could power a variety of space projects. China's state-owned main space contractor tested five different rocket engines on one day last week in preparation for future ...

Since then all the advances have been in making rockets larger and more efficient through innovations peripheral to the rocket engine itself. There are alternatives to chemical rockets ...

NASA and Rocket Lab are entering a new era with Neutron, a rocket including 3D printed parts that will fly in mid-2025.

In this classical design, which dates back to the German V-2 of WWII, the exhaust from what’s essentially a smaller and less efficient rocket engine is used to spin a turbine and generate the ...