The last attempt to launch a satellite from Australian soil was in 1971, when the British Black Arrow rocket lifted off from ...

What does it take to make a country join the rarefied ranks of orbital launch providers? For Australia, the answer came in a ...

The first Australian-made rocket, developed by Gilmore Space Technologies, has achieved 14 seconds of flight before crashing ...

Proving that you can't keep a good technology down, Reaction Engines' Synergetic Air-Breathing Rocket Engine (SABRE) has a ...

An Australian space company has made history by attempting the first domestic launch of an Australian-made rocket into orbit, ...

The next launch window for the Eris TestFlight1 is Weds, July 30, between 7.30am and 5.30pm after high winds prevented lift ...

Modern rockets, which use a liquid or solid fuel, didn't come into being until a scientist named Dr. Robert H. Goddard developed and launched the first liquid-fueled rocket on March 16, 1926.

And yet, despite their success and exposure, they still haven't been able to remove the legacy rocket engines like the RS-25 or the RL10 from the picture.

Capable of generating about 250,000 pounds of thrust, the demonstrator uses liquid oxygen and liquid hydrogen in a first U.S. demonstration of a full-flow, staged-combustion (FFSC) cycle.

“A liquid rocket engine at every point at every step of the way wants to violently explode.” While the task of launching the engineering equivalent of an explosive with an upset stomach over 62 miles ...

Shown here is the RL-10 rocket engine. Designed and built by the Pratt and Whitney Aircraft Division of the United Aircraft Corporation, the RL-10 was the world's first operational liquid ...

Object Details Manufacturer Reaction Motors, Inc. Summary This is the XLR-11, also called the 6000C-4, one of the most widely used U.S. liquid-propellant rocket engines that powered the Bell X-1 and ...