...aspirations. “Our data seem to reveal that school students like science but very few aspire to be scientists or engineers,” Prof Archer explains. “By age 17-18, over 80 percent of students agreed that ‘scientists do valuable work’ and over 85 percent...
...ve times the speed of sound. The X-51A vehicles were built by The Boeing Company, each powered by a unique engine called a ‘scramjet’, which was in turn constructed by the Rocketdyne Corporation1, burning a relatively conventional jet fuel. Scramjets...
... double that amount, $67.3 million, under the jointly funded program. Prior to the contract in January, development of the engine was funded exclusively by SpaceX, however since the contract was signed, development has begun on a prototype upper...
... a contract last week to develop a full-scale demonstrator of its new ultra-low cost reusable rocket engine known as Prometheus; an engine that is set to power Europe’s future launchers. Prometheus stands for Precursor Reusable Oxygen METHan cost...
...bankruptcy" if issues surrounding the production of the Raptor engines that power SpaceX’s Starship vehicle cannot be resolved. The...lack of progress in developing and manufacturing the powerful engines, CNBC reported last week. The leadership shake-up...
... static fire of what will be our first-stage orbital rocket engine. It demonstrated stable thrust, and peaked at 75 kilonewtons (or ...The next launch will be the flight test of a full-scale engine, which we plan to use in the first stage of our Eris...