One hundred years ago yesterday, Robert H. Goddard ignited a small rocket fueled by gasoline and liquid oxygen on a frozen ...

NASA’s CryoFILL project aims to produce and liquefy oxygen on the Moon to refuel landers, reduce propellant from Earth and ...

Liftoff of the Long March 11 from a mobile platform in the Yellow Sea, June 5, 2019. Credit: China Academy of Launch Vehicle Technology (CALT). TALLINN, Estonia — Chinese state-owned and commercial ...

HELSINKI — Space Pioneer has become the first Chinese private launch firm to achieve orbit with a liquid propellant rocket. The Tianlong-2 (“Sky Dragon-2”) lifted off from a transport erector launcher ...

When it comes to space travel, cryogenic liquids are essential. Without them, astronauts might just find themselves left out in the cold — literally. Used as propellants in spaceflight, cryogenic ...

Goddard launched the world’s first successful liquid-fueled rocket from a farm in Auburn, Massachusetts.   The rocket was ...

A common design for launch/space propulsion involves liquid propellants. In this application, often there is a gaseous pressurant stored in a Composite Overwrapped Pressure Vessel (COPV) at high ...

Researchers demonstrated the first fully 3D-printed, droplet-emitting electrospray engine. The low-cost device can be fabricated more quickly than traditional thrusters, potentially from on board a ...