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How do hydrogen droplets behave when hydrogen-oxygen aerosol mixtures burn
Jun 22, 2016 (SPX)
Modern rockets and their launch vehicles commonly rely on hydrogen-oxygen mixtures as propellant, but this combination is highly explosive. The Challenger space...
Lift off for ABS-2A
Jun 19, 2016 (SPX)
ABS announced that ABS-2A was successfully launched aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 full thrust rocket from Cape Canaveral, Florida at 10:29 a.m. EDT. The satellite li...
Dropping RD-180 engines is like 'burning $100M for fun'
Jun 18, 2016 (Sputnik)
Russian-made RD-180 rocket engines have been at the heart of a heated debate in the US Congress between those, who want the US to drop them as soon as possible,...
Ukraine Unlikely to Meet Challenge of Building Large Rocket Engines for US
Jun 10, 2016 (Sputnik)
Ukraine has proposed to the United States joint development and production of rocket engines to replace Russia's RD-180 engines that the US side buys for its sp...
SLS Booster 'Chills Out' Ahead of Super-Hot Ground Test
Jun 10, 2016 (SPX)
The Old Farmer's Almanac is predicting a hotter-than-normal summer for Utah, but at Orbital ATK's test facility in Promontory, crews are bundling up to chill do...
US-Ukrainian Rocket Engine Proposal 'Formula for Disaster'
Jun 08, 2016 (Sputnik)
A Ukrainian proposal to co-manufacture large rocket engines with the United States to replace Russian ones would face enormous problems, Spinney claimed. "From ...
Understanding today's rocket engine market
Jun 01, 2016 (SPX)
Many innovators have proposed a variety of concepts that might propel a launch vehicle from Earth to orbit. However, only two basic types of rocket engines have...
Russia to Create New Powerful Plasma Rocket Engine
May 30, 2016 (Sputnik)
A Russian rocket engine company, with the assistance of a major research and development institute, will work on a project to create a powerful electrodeless pl...
Roscosmos Proposes International Team to Create Super-Heavy Carrier Rocket
May 25, 2016 (Sputnik)
The deputy head of Russia's space agency Roscosmos said that Russia offers its international partners to jointly create a new super-heavy-lift launch vehicle. R...
Abandonment of Russian Booster Engines May Send NASA's Costs Skyrocketing
May 20, 2016 (Sputnik)
The Pentagon saying "no" to the further use of Russian RD-180 rocket engines may damage "the financial viability" of NASA projects, according to the Wall Street...
Will America Set Military Back by Abandoning Russian RD-180 Rocket Engines
May 20, 2016 (Sputnik)
The Senate Armed Services Committee calls for halving the US appropriation for the military's go-to rocket engine, the House Armed Services Committee focuses on...
Australian, U.S. HIFiRE rocket achieves Mach 7.5
May 18, 2016 (UPI)
Australia and the United States have successfully fired an experimental rocket with a speed of more than seven times the speed of sound. The rocket, which reach...
Russia to start financing new Phoenix carrier rocket development in 2018
May 17, 2016 (Sputnik)
Russia will begin financing the development of a new carrier rocket dubbed Phoenix in 2018, Deputy General Director of Khrunichev State Research and Production ...
Air Force demos key rocket engine technologies for new launch systems
May 17, 2016 (SPX)
The U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory and contractor Aerojet Rocketdyne achieved a major milestone under the Hydrocarbon Boost program, which is advancing dome...
Orbital ATK completes installation of world's largest solid rocket motor
May 12, 2016 (SPX)
Orbital ATK in partnership with NASA, has completed installing the second Space Launch System (SLS) booster qualification motor, QM-2, in a specialized test sta...
NASA awards Paragon with In-space Fuel Depot technology study
May 09, 2016 (SPX)
Paragon Space Development Corporation (Paragon) and partner Thin Red Line Aerospace (TRLA) received a Phase I Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) award fr...
Generation Orbit signs Space Act Agreement for GOLauncher 1 Testing
May 08, 2016 (SPX)
Generation Orbit Launch Services, Inc. (GO) is pleased to announce the signing of a Space Act Agreement with NASA Armstrong Flight Research Center (AFRC) to col...
US engineers inspecting all Russian RD-180 engines amid determined anomaly
May 04, 2016 (Sputnik)
US rocket engineers are currently checking all Russian-made RD-180 engines following the determined anomaly that caused premature booster shutdown in the March ...
Why Washington cannot ban Russia's RD-180 rocket engines
May 03, 2016 (Sputnik)
There are at least four reasons why Washington should not ban Russian RD-180 engines, Loren B. Thompson and Constance Baroudos of the Lexington Institute pointe...
Johns Hopkins researchers aim for safer, more efficient rocket engines
Apr 29, 2016 (SPX)
The U.S. Air Force has awarded two contracts totaling $1.48 million to the Energetics Research Group, based within Johns Hopkins University's Whiting School of ...
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