Lars Osborne of Agile Space Propulsion presented their storable propellant hypergolic rocket engines at Space Access 2019. Their engines are well suited for lunar and planetary landers and upper ...

Hypergolic propulsion is particularly handy once you're already up in space, because there's no need for an ignition system per se – you can simply pressure-feed your fuel and oxidizer into a ...

Whereas up until recently we lived in a world where new engine development was mainly done in the automotive industry, the resurrection of humans’ interest in space exploration has some interesting ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — When SpaceX’s Crew Dragon capsule splashed down off the Florida coast in August following its first crewed mission, the two astronauts inside could not exit the capsule ...

China’s space program has reached the Moon, landed a rover on Mars and built its own crewed space station, but some of its ...

THOUSAND OAKS, Calif., July 22, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Frontier Aerospace, a leader in next-generation liquid rocket propulsion, today announced the successful first hot-fire of its new hypergolic ...

LOUISVILLE, Colo.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The photo has been updated. The release reads: SIERRA SPACE EXPANDS VORTEX® PRODUCT LINE WITH NEW 1,500 LBF HYPERGOLIC ENGINE VORTEX® VRM1500-H is a new addition to ...

China launches test direct-to-device satellites for multiple projects China capped a busy month of launches by sending four ...

“Because of the speed of hypergolic reactions, you can catch the material in a metastable configuration that you cannot get from the slow heating of a normal reaction.” Carbon capture in T minus two ...