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In most rocket engines, liquid hydrogen fuel and liquid oxygen oxidizer are pumped into a combustion chamber, where they ignite and produce hot exhaust to propel the rocket. A plasma rocket ...

Developed by Rosatom’s Troitsk Institute, the new technology could drastically reduce current space travel durations, which ...

Officials at the University of California, Riverside (UCR), the University of Michigan, and several industry partners launch ...

including a new hydrogen-oxygen engine. Seen as a crucial step in rocket engine development, the test run involves dozens of mission types, each designed to assess different aspects of the engine ...

A rocket engine based on detonative combustion could therefore theoretically ... The rotational detonation engine was tested in around 100 hot runs on the M3.1 and M11 test benches. The ...

Such engines burn hydrogen as fuel instead of gasoline, much like rockets. The Japanese automaker said testing the technology in race cars will allow it to collect data and try to fix problems on ...