hypergolic rocket engine that promises to become a groundbreaking addition to its engine portfolio. Employing pure hydrazine fuel and MON3 oxidizer in a staged combustion cycle, the new engine ...

The release reads: SIERRA SPACE EXPANDS VORTEX® PRODUCT LINE WITH NEW 1,500 LBF HYPERGOLIC ENGINE VORTEX ... lightweight and cost-efficient rocket engine system. Sierra Space, which is building ...

The engine, which burns a hypergolic mix of nitrogen tetroxide ... along with the LVM-3. The rocket can deliver up to 3,860 pounds (1,750 kg) of payload to sun-synchronous polar orbits 370 miles ...

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 ...

A closeup of one of the aerospike nozzles used in the Dryden Aerospike Rocket Test. The aerospike engine—specifically the conical aerospike—looks quite similar to a conventional rocket and ...

But arguably, the true game-changers are in the engines that power these spacecraft — the Blue Engine-4 (BE-4) and Raptor. Compared to more "conventional" rocket engines, BE-4 and Raptor are ...

Previous North Korean rockets used hypergolic propellants ... If Russia exported a kerosene-fueled rocket engine, or perhaps an entire booster, to North Korea, it wouldn't be the first time ...

Learn more. Brunswick aerospace company bluShift finally ran a full flight-duration hot-fire test of its engine that will eventually take its rocket, Starless Rogue, to space. The engine ...

Last fall, they had just successfully tested the TKL-5, a 3D-printed, 5-kilonewton rocket engine the company generated using the first version of Noyron. They used all the data they got during the ...

The prototype BE-3U engine was designed to power the upper stage of Blue Origin’s giant reusable New Glenn rocket that launched for the first time only a couple of months ago. It stands about 15 ...

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