Whether the German V-2 rocket, NASA’s legendary Saturn V, or SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy, all rocket engines share a common attribute: their exhaust nozzles are shaped like bells. The geometry of this ...

Aerospace startup Polaris Raumflugzeuge has been awarded a contract by the German government's Bundesamt für Ausrüstung, Informationstechnik und Nutzung der Bundeswehr (BAAINBw) (Federal Office of ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: For 65 years of human spaceflight, rockets ferrying astronauts to the stars have all had bell-shaped nozzles specifically designed to produce enough ...

Engineers at NASA's Stennis Space Center in Mississippi have successfully completed a critical initial test of the Electro-Mechanical Actuator (EMA) technology built for the former X-33 program's ...

Stennis Space Center engineers completed a three-test series with twin Rocketdyne XRS-2200 linear aerospike engines, running the tandem setup for the planned 90 seconds at 85% power. Although the ...

An artificial intelligence engineer called Noyron has successfully designed, manufactured, and tested one of the most challenging rocket engines in the aerospace industry: a cryogenic aerospike ...