Russian scientists claim to have developed a plasma electric rocket engine that could enable travel to Mars in just one to ...
Russia's State Atomic Energy Corporation, Rosatom, recently developed a new spacecraft engine with impressive specifications.
A laboratory prototype of a plasma electric rocket engine based on a magnetic plasma accelerator has been produced by Rosatom ...
Liquid-fuelled rocket engine design has largely followed a simple template since the development of the German V-2 rocket in the middle of World War 2. Propellant and oxidizer are mixed in a ...
The newly tested engines could power a variety of space projects. China's state-owned main space contractor tested five different rocket engines on one day last week in preparation for future ...
Most any rocket engine you’d find on a spacecraft – save for solid or hybrid rockets – use an engine system that’s fairly complex. Because of the intense heat, the fuel is circulated ...
The vehicle's first stage will land vertically, similarly to a Falcon 9 rocket, and the second stage, which has a novel metallic heat shield and engine design, will also land back on Earth.
According to the Blue Origin website, the engines of the Blue Origin New Glenn reusable rocket were made in Kent, Wash. and Huntsville, Ala. The engines are the BE-3PM, BE-3U, BE-4 and BE-7.