At the heart of future rocket engines lifting off to the Moon or Mars could be a 3D printed combustion chamber. Multiple NASA centers partnered with Virgin Orbit to develop and test a uniquely ...

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Rocket combustion and heat transfer dynamics encompass a range of interlinked phenomena critical to the design and operation of modern rocket engines. The combustion process involves rapidly reacting ...

Air Force Research Laboratory, Propulsion Directorate, AFRL/PR-West, Edwards AFB, CA is soliciting technical and cost proposals for Integrated High Payoff Rocket Propulsion Technology VI (IHPRPT).

Reaction Engines Ltd. announces today the signing of a €10m Development Contract with the European Space Agency, finalizing the UK Government’s £60m commitment. Reaction Engines Ltd., today announces ...

Flow velocity in the fuel/oxidizer injectors and combustion chamber during combustion oscillations in a model of a rocket engine. (Courtesy: Hiroshi Gotoda) Researchers in Japan have identified a ...

They have successfully test-fired 3D-printed combustion chambers made from multiple materials. The news: By combining their manufacturing and testing capabilities, small-satellite launcher Virgin ...

Black Engine is a new thrust chamber design using CFRP, GFRP and CMC composites in a methane-burning, 60-kilonewton propulsion system aimed at the myriad small launch vehicles being developed to send ...

Orbital Technologies Corporation (ORBITEC) successfully flight tested its patented vortex liquid fuel rocket engine on October 25. The engine was installed in a Prospector-class Garvey Spacecraft ...

British defense contractor BAE Systems, one of the world's foremost purveyors of futuristic defense technologies, just officially announced that it plans to invest roughly $31.7 million to help ...