A scramjet engine made by Northrop Grumman set a record for the highest thrust produced by an air-breathing hypersonic engine in US Air Force history. Ground tests of the 5.5m (18ft)-long engine were ...
NASA's megarocket is back in its giant garage after completing a mission-critical dress rehearsal at the launchpad for its first voyage to the moon.. Credit: NASA/Maddison Tuttle NASA's megarocket is ...
NASA's moon megarocket is going to get a heckuva lot… mega-er. Though the U.S. space agency has only completed the crewless Artemis I mission around the moon and back so far, engineers are busy ...
Wright has now “completed construction of a dedicated thrust test stand for electric jet engine performance analysis”, the company said on 5 May. The stand “is being installed” at Wright’s laboratory ...
NASA’s Commercial Crew Program (CCP) partner Blue Origin has successfully fired the thrust chamber assembly for its new 100,000 pound thrust BE-3 liquid oxygen, liquid hydrogen rocket engine. As part ...
The United Kingdom eVTOL company, Vertical Aerospace, started their 2025 right and with a massive achievement with their VX4 aircraft which achieved a new milestone featuring its thrust-borne maneuver ...
[Mike Stewart] powers up a thrust meter from an Apollo lunar module. This bit of kit passed inspection on September 25, 1969. Fortunately [Mike] was able to dig up some old documentation which ...
The VX4 can carry a pilot and four passengers up to 100 mi. (161 km) with a cruising speed of 150 mph. Vertical Aerospace To Begin Crewed, Thrust-borne Test Flights is published in Advanced Air ...
NASA’s Commercial Crew Program (CCP) partner Blue Origin has successfully fired the thrust chamber assembly for its new 100,000 pound thrust BE-3 liquid oxygen, liquid hydrogen rocket engine. As part ...