13 July 2016
Reaction Engines sign new deal with ESA while UK Space Agency announces new facility
... at Westcott in Buckinghamshire and it will allow UK companies and academia to test and develop space propulsion engines including engines geared towards interplanetary travel, along with building on existing facilities for the significant commercial...
18 July 2017
Why the space programme needs civil engineers
...those working in the space programme are researching ways to make terraforming possible, efficient and successful. Civil engineers are already working in the field but, in the future, when terraforming is essential to our exploration of other planets...
October 2016
Unlocking the potential of annular ion engines
...fabrication of high perveance large-area ion optics, which in turn increases the power handling capability per engine, doing so at specific impulse levels of interest (≤5000 sec., typ.). AIE designs capable of processing 100s of kW should be feasible...
19 June 2017
"The most efficient rocket engine in the world" to be launched by ARCA
... readiness level of the Haas 2CA, ARCA will first fly the engine in the company’s Demonstrator 3 rocket as it performs a suborbital space...launch. One of the key factors of the aerospike engine is that it maintains its efficiency from ground level all...
05 January 2018
Gilmour Space completes successful test of hybrid rocket engine
... first company in the world to produce a multi-material fuel grain using additive (3D) manufacturing. “We conducted two successful engine tests in December, one of which was a low pressure test-fire that generated 45 kilonewtons (over 10,100 pounds...
28 July 2021
Japan successfully tests rocket engine propelled by shock waves
... a mixture of methane and oxygen gases, the country’s space agency said Tuesday. Known officially as a pulse detonation engine (PDE), it was launched aboard a S-520-31 sounding rocket – a powerful single-stage rocket capable of lofting a 100 kilogram...
