2019 has been shaping up to be an interesting year for SpaceX and its founder, Elon Musk. After completing work on the miniaturized version of the Starship (Starship Alpha or "Starship hopper") over ...

The Voronezh rocket engine building center (part of Energomash integrated rocket engine building structure of Roscosmos) has successfully completed a cycle of fire tests of the standard chamber of the ...

Blue Origin, the reusable rocket startup created and bankrolled by Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos, successfully fired the thrust chamber of a hydrogen-fueled engine being developed with help from a ...

The SpaceX Raptor engine has set a new record for the highest pressure in a record engine. The Russian RD-180 held the highest record pressure in its combustion chamber for decades. It had a pressure ...

The European Space Agency’s (ESA) Vega launcher project has passed a milestone, with a successful sustained heat test on its new 3D-printed thrust chamber. The new part belongs to Vega’s M10 engine, ...

Click to open image viewer. This is the Thrust Chamber Assembly that fits on top of the nozzle of the Apollo Service Module Propulsion System (SPS). The large nozzle is not shown. The SPS engine was ...

Imagine triangles spinning around a shower curtain rod inside a beer keg—that is an elemental description of the screaming Wankel rotary engine. This powerplant is beloved by gearheads the world over ...

Click to open image viewer. This is a cutaway of the combustion chamber of the Apollo Service Module Propulsion System (SPS), a liquid-fuel rocket engine used on Apollo spacecraft. It is not shown ...