Russia's State Atomic Energy Corporation, Rosatom, recently developed a new spacecraft engine with impressive specifications.

Russian scientists claim to have developed a plasma electric rocket engine that could enable travel to Mars in just one to ...

The rocket in question was driven by a powerful Russian engine unlike any ever built in the States. Although this particular engine was new, the design dated back to the space age. By the early ...

The newly tested engines could power a variety of space projects. China's state-owned main space contractor tested five different rocket engines ... which is designed to send astronauts to the ...

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The vehicle's first stage will land vertically, similarly to a Falcon 9 rocket, and the second stage, which has a novel metallic heat shield and engine design, will also land back on Earth.

A recent launch of China’s Lijian-1 rocket, designed for commercial ... three seconds after the third-stage engines ignited, forcing the rocket’s self-destruct mechanism to engage.

Liquid-fuelled rocket engine design has largely followed a simple template since the development of the German V-2 rocket in the middle of World War 2. Propellant and oxidizer are mixed in a ...

and Huntsville, Ala. The engines are the BE-3PM, BE-3U, BE-4 and BE-7. Each rocket has a different function: (Photo: Blue Origin New Glenn) The BE-3PM is designed to thrust the rocket up but also ...

China's state-owned main space contractor tested five different rocket engines on one day ... developing new liquid hydrogen-liquid oxygen engines for rockets including the Long March 10 launcher, ...