First-Stage Launch Propulsion: NASA’s efforts in this area will focus on development of a U.S. LOX/RP rocket engine with a minimum thrust of 1M lbs applicable to multiple users in the first stage of ...

Landspace tests 220-ton methane engine for future heavy-lift launchers Chinese launch startup Landspace says it has completed a long-duration full-system hot-fire test of its new 220-ton-class methane ...

DUBLIN--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The "eVTOL Aircraft Market by Lift Technology (Vectored Thrust, Multirotor, Lift Plus Cruise), MTOW (<250 KG, 250 - 500 KG, 500 - 1500 KG, >1500 KG), Application, Mode of ...

Since the early days of powered vertical flight, there have been a wide range of labels placed on approaches to aircraft lift and cruise propulsion, also called the “configuration.” An early taxonomy ...

Aerojet, a GenCorp Inc. company, provided the solid rocket power needed for launching the Lockheed Martin Atlas® V launch vehicle and its Pluto New Horizons spacecraft earlier today from Cape ...

Have you ever wondered how airplanes, despite their massive size, manage to stay in the sky? The answer lies in aerodynamics, which explains how air interacts with moving objects to generate lift, ...

While the engineering behind modern aircraft is incredibly complicated, the basic concepts behind getting airborne is simpler than you might think. “So the fundamentals, the physics of flight, deal ...

Who hasn't looked at an 800,000-pound passenger jet soaring through the sky and wondered how it could possibly stay up there? Ten-year-old Lucas took a break from munching his nachos at Schaumburg's ...

Lift in April demonstrated the Hexa to the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff in the University of Texas at Austin football stadium. Credit: Lift Aircraft Lift Aircraft has completed its first six production ...