When Rocket Lab unveiled the Rutherford engine at the 31st Space Symposium in Colorado, it looked like any other space engine. It wasn’t. Rocket Lab manufactured the Rutherford via additive ...

A Bengaluru-based B2B and B2G space tech startup, SpaceFieldsSpaceFields specialises in solid rocket propulsion technology ... product is the Aerospike engine, which was demonstrated in ...

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 ...

CEDAR PARK, Texas — Cedar Park-based aerospace company Firefly is developing new technology to build better rocket engines. The Air Force Research Laboratory at Edwards Air Force Base in ...

“The technology we developed with NASA’s support will now be part of our integrated engine platform —bringing us one step closer to proving that efficient, compact and affordable hypersonic flight can ...

including carbon fiber composite structures and 3D printed rocket engines, but has a modified upper Kick Stage tailored for hypersonic technology tests and a larger payload capacity of up to 700 ...

As the landers touch down and lift off from the moon, rocket exhaust plumes will affect the top layer of lunar "soil," called regolith, on the moon. When the lander's engines ignite to decelerate ...

“We got our start by building these hybrid rocket engines, which are half-solid, half-liquid” fuel, he said, explaining that these depend on nitrous oxide, which reacts with the fuel, enabling ...

Like the Talon-A, the X-15 released from a carrier jet and ignited a rocket engine to soar into the uppermost layers of the atmosphere. But the X-15 had a pilot in command, while the Talon-A flies ...