British startup Pulsar Fusion has unveiled Sunbird, a space rocket concept designed to meet spacecraft in orbit, attach to ...

We are fascinated by the hybrid rocket engine which [Ben Krasnow] built and tested in his shop. It is actually using a hollow cylinder of acrylic as the fuel, with gaseous oxygen as an oxidizer.

HICKAM will design and manufacture a modular, compact, and portable testing platform for characterizing hybrid rocket engines. The team will also manufacture two 300 lbf hybrid rocket motors to prove ...

Liquid fuelled engines are throttleable and monstrously powerful, but highly complex. Meanwhile, solid rocket engines are simple and cheap, but once you light them, they’re going full-bore until ...

BRUNSWICK, Maine (WGME) -- "BluShift Aerospace" in Brunswick has completed the latest test on its hybrid rocket engine. It ...

Hybrid rocket propulsion is used in several specific areas of space transportation. Those applications are micro-satellites (manoeuvring and orbit transfer), lunar and planetary landers ...

Chicago, March 19, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The global rocket hybrid propulsion market was valued at US$ 3.77 billion in 2024 and is expected to reach US$ 6.30 billion by 2033, growing at a CAGR ...

The Sunbird nuclear fusion rocket concept has the potential to more than halve the time to travel to Mars and cut travel time to Pluto to about four years, the UK's Pulsar Fusion says. The concept ...

The dream of nuclear fusion has been chased by some of the world’s brightest minds for decades. It’s easy to see why — replicating the inner workings of stars here on Earth would mean ...