Lars Osborne of Agile Space Propulsion presented their storable propellant hypergolic rocket engines at Space Access 2019. Their engines are well suited for lunar and planetary landers and upper ...

Hypergolic propulsion is particularly handy once you're already up in space, because there's no need for an ignition system per se – you can simply pressure-feed your fuel and oxidizer into a ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — When SpaceX’s Crew Dragon capsule splashed down off the Florida coast in August following its first crewed mission, the two astronauts inside could not exit the capsule ...

Whereas up until recently we lived in a world where new engine development was mainly done in the automotive industry, the resurrection of humans’ interest in space exploration has some interesting ...

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McGill Researchers have made rocket fuel that is much cleaner and safer than the hypergolic fuels that are commonly used today. And still just as effective. The new fuels use simple chemical “triggers ...

“Because of the speed of hypergolic reactions, you can catch the material in a metastable configuration that you cannot get from the slow heating of a normal reaction.” Carbon capture in T minus two ...

During the Apollo era, NASA astronauts relied on a rocket tower at the top of the capsule to pull them safely away in case of an emergency. If it wasn’t used, the tower was jettisoned after the Saturn ...

A Long March 2C lifts off from LC-3 at Xichang carrying the Yaogan-30 (07) group of satellites. Credit: OurSpace HELSINKI — A pair of Chinese spacecraft, apparently intended for lunar orbit, have ...