The Falcon 9 uses a mix of rocket-grade kerosene and supercooled liquid oxygen, making leak containment critical for stable ...

SpaceX has postponed the Axiom-4 mission launch to the International Space Station due to a Liquid Oxygen (LOx) leak ...

They’re built for speed, but to improve maneuverability (and because it’s super cool) [johnbecker31] designed a 3D-printable method of adjusting the EDF’s thrust on demand. Before 3D ...

As the August launch date for NASA's first Artemis lunar mission approaches, Northrop Grumman has released dramatic video footage of a full-scale static ... an electronic thrust vector control ...

Standing down from tomorrow's Falcon 9 launch of Ax-4 to the @Space_Station to allow additional time for SpaceX teams to ...

Northrop Grumman Corporation and NASA successfully conducted a full-scale static fire of NASA’s ... motor ignition system and an electronic thrust vector control system that steers the motors ...

Blue Origin has conducted the first hot-fire static test of the fully integrated ... hydrogen and oxygen tanks for the engines, the thrust vector system, and the start-up and shutdown sequences.

that amounts to approximately 5.61 million pounds of thrust. All 33 Raptor 2 engines are expected to produce around three times that power. During the previous static fire test on November 14 ...

What a pilot really needs is a way to quickly get in the right position to fire at the enemy. Today’s most maneuverable fighters use thrust vectoring, which can make a jet turn faster and more ...

SpaceX Starship had by far the longest static fire ever of about 1 minute ... The extended firing tested new hardware and cycled the six Raptor engines through multiple thrust levels to recreate ...

When it comes to rockets, a “static-fire engine test,” by definition ... causing the rocket’s powerful thrust to send the vehicle skyward. And the situation only got worse.