Space travel has not one but many challenges. Chief among these is the requirement ...

As you can probably imagine, we get tips on a lot of really interesting projects here at Hackaday. Most are pretty serious, at least insofar as they aim to solve a specific problem in some new and ...

Since the very beginning, solid-propellants have been the cornerstone of amateur rocketry. From the little Estes rocket picked up from the toy store, to vehicles like the University of Southern ...

For NASA's next generation of deep-space exploration missions, spacecraft may need to refuel in Earth orbit before pushing ...

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 ...

Description: Project BLERP aims to design and construct a reusable liquid rocket engine and launch stand that can be re-used and studied by future students at University of Colorado Boulder. The goal ...

One hundred years ago yesterday, Robert H. Goddard ignited a small rocket fueled by gasoline and liquid oxygen on a frozen farm in Auburn, Massachusetts. That flight lasted roughly 2.5 seconds. Today, ...

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 ...

As part of ESA's Future Launchers Preparatory Program (FLPP), the first phase of hot-fire tests has been completed on a new, variable-thrust rocket engine in Warsaw, Poland. The engine is being ...