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(Courtesy of Sal Rodriguez) Building much more efficient rockets Sandia and UNM collaborate to build
via UCL The impact of rocket launches may have a greater climate effect than the
A simplified diagram showing the bubble-through nuclear thermal propulsion engine concept. Courtesy Propulsion Research Center
Model of ammonia borane. Carbon-free fuel possible for space flight? A chemical used in electric
via Flipboard Launching rockets using a high-power beam of microwave radiation? Researchers led by the
(Photo by Elle Starkman, PPPL Office of Communications, and ITER) PPPL physicist Fatima Ebrahimi in
A Soyuz spacecraft launches from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan in 2017 using a conventional,
Research published this week in Science Advances shows that it may be possible to create
A ‘self-eating’ rocket engine which could place small satellites in orbit more easily and more
SpaceX isn’t the only private company racking up space firsts. Having successfully flown to space
EVERYTHING about space flight is superlative. Even relatively modest rockets are hundreds of feet high.
A greener fuel “less toxic than caffeine” could replace NASA’s dangerous hydrazine rocket propellant For