Much was riding on Flight 9 for Elon Musk’s giant moon and Mars rocket after debris from January and March flights fell into ...

SpaceFields’ moonshot product is the Aerospike engine, which was demonstrated in a test in September. “Most launch vehicles that carry satellites into space are behemoths. They need bigger ...

Building on the successful validation of smaller-scale engines, the company is now advancing two reference designs: the Noyron XRA-2E5, a 200 kN aerospike engine, and the Noyron XRB-2E6, a 2000 kN ...

NASA, the world’s leading space agency, is not only all about space exploration; it also stretches its net to the automotive industry. The agency is making headlines for manufacturing futuristic ...

India's IISc-incubated startup SpaceFields has successfully tested its innovative aerospike solid rocket engine, showcasing a peak thrust of 13.42 kN and peak pressure of 5 MPa. This test ...

And—unlike the NASA engineers who spent years designing ... a radically different—and extremely challenging—engine like the aerospike. Unlike the conventional bell-shaped nozzle we are ...

The aerospike engine represents a paradigm shift in rocket propulsion ... the perseverance shown by space agencies in their long-term exploration efforts, such as NASA’s Curiosity rover, which has ...

X-59’s engine started for testing for the first time. NASA’s Quesst (“Quiet SuperSonic Technology”) mission recently achieved a key milestone as it began testing the engine that will power ...

Nov. 6 (UPI) --NASA engineers fired the engines on the X-59 research aircraft in advance of planned test flights to determine if the aircraft can reduce sonic booms and make supersonic flight over ...

The NASA team developing the X-59 supersonic demonstrator jet have fired up the aircraft’s GE Aviation F414-GE-100 powerplant for the first time, having started engine-run tests on 30 October.

This test of twin Rocketdyne XRS-2200 Linear Aerospike engines, originally built for Lockheed Martin's X-33 program, was performed on August 6, 2001, at NASA's Stennis Space Center So the ...

In April 2022, the 3D printed E-2 engine reached full thrust during testing at NASA’s Stennis Space Center ... by using artificial intelligence and 3D printing to produce an aerospike rocket engine ...