WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – Graphene, a new material with applications in biomedical technology, electronics, composites, energy and sensors, may soon help send rockets to space. “Our propulsion and ...

Solid-fuel rockets are the dream weapons of military rocketeers. They have no pumps or valves to go wrong and are always ready to fire. Their big trouble is that they are harder to control than liquid ...

Iran has been actively developing both solid-fuel and liquid-fuel rockets as part of its ballistic missile programmes, dating back to the Iran-Iraq war in the 1980’s, with the Islamic Revolutionary ...

At last week’s Washington meeting of the American Rocket Society, a 90-ft. Titan missile stood outside the building; often discussed at the meeting were other liquid-fuel rockets. These types are ...

The smell of melting plastic filled the work area of a local space company early one morning. It was the smell of recycled plastic beads being converted into solid rocket fuel grains. This is not your ...

A Japanese solid-fuel rocket exploded mere seconds into its inaugural launch in a major setback for the country’s quest to reach space as private firm Space One tried to become the country’s first ...

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Modern spaceflight rests on a deceptively simple idea: a machine that carries its own fuel and oxidizer, then hurls exhaust backward fast enough to push itself forward. The person who first turned ...

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