Ontario-based aerospace company, NordSpace, will launch its first rocket out of St. Lawerence, N.L. this August.

There is a reason building a rocket engine is harder than most things you want to build. If you are building, say, a car, your goal is to not have it explode. If you are building a bomb, you want t… ...

Like the emblematic snake, the engine is designed to devour its own back end as it uses up the rocket fuel contained there. “As you burn through your propellants, you have these empty tanks ...

As the engine heats up, it melts the rocket's supporting structure made of a plastic tube and burns it too. By burning this plastic, the rocket gains an additional 5 to 16 percent of fuel.

UK researchers have designed a self-eating rocket engine that burns its own body for fuel. They hope the design can help curb the worsening junk problem in space. With some of its mass freed up ...

Rocket engine explodes during test launch from new spaceport in Scotland By: The Associated Press Posted: 6:59 AM CDT Tuesday, Aug. 20, 2024 Last Modified: 11:45 AM CDT Tuesday, Aug. 20, 2024 ...