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

In order to significantly increase the effectiveness, performance and specific impulse of future rocket engines, high combustion chamber pressures are required ... are decisive criteria for the ...

generating thrust. However, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) has recently completed a successful test of a different type of rocket, known as a rotating detonation engine. The engine ...

The thrust chamber - consisting of the injection head, combustion chamber and expansion nozzle - as part of a rocket engine is one of the most thermally and mechanically stressed parts of a rocket and ...

We were in Shetland to film the latest developments in the UK's space race when the rocket launch ... sideways from the engine platform, rather than being directed down. The sound wave hit us ...