Conceived not long after the first Chevy small blocks hit American streets, the RL10 was the type of rocket engine you could build a space agency around.

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 ...

Using supersonic shockwaves for combustion, the groundbreaking design could allow aircraft to travel up to six times the speed of sound. Reading time: Reading time 4 minutes Venus Aerospace is a ...

There have been published papers by the Air Force Research Lab and NASA on rotating detonation engines having 10% or more efficiency gains. A rotating detonation engine (RDE) uses a form of pressure ...

A US-based propulsion company has successfully launched and flown a new rocket powered by a unique rotating detonation engine. Although relatively small by rocket standards, the test could pave the ...

HOT ROD’s archives are chock-full of brilliant tech reports that truly are timeless. This one, drafted by Jim McFarland for our February 1972 issue, provides an extensive look at how important airflow ...

An Ursa Major propulsion engineer works on a 5,000-pound thrust “Hadley” rocket engine Ursa Major, America’s only privately funded company that focuses solely on rocket propulsion, today announced a ...