The Falcon 1 made history on September 28, 2008 by becoming the "first privately developed liquid fuel rocket to reach Earth orbit," according to SpaceX. Hear from the team that made it happen. Credit ...

At first glance, it’s a bit of a wash: the density and specific impulses of kerolox (kerosene-oxygen) and metholox ... Build and Test Small Liquid-Fuel Rocket Engines. ...

Ninety years ago today, on March 28, 1935, Robert H. Goddard launched the first gyroscopically-stabilized liquid-fueled rocket, the A-5, in Roswell, New Mexico. This groundbreaking event marked ...

The H-1 liquid-fuel rocket engine was the first stage powerplant for the Saturn 1 and Saturn 1B launch vehicles, the precursors to the Saturn V which took men to the Moon in the Apollo program. The ...

When SpaceX sent its first liquid-fueled rocket into orbit in 2008, it set the stage for more privately developed spaceflights. But the chemical it pumped into its marquee machines wasn’t ...

The two-stage Zhuque-2 rocket is powered by four TQ-12 engines on its first stage, consuming methane and liquid oxygen propellants to generate nearly 600,000 pounds of thrust at liftoff.

The fuel in a standard liquid rocket engine doesn’t detonate at all; instead it deflagrates—the technical term for an ignition front that spreads at subsonic speeds, as in piston engines ...

The TL 2, a carrier rocket developed by Space Pioneer, reached orbit on Sunday afternoon, becoming the first privately built, liquid-fuel rocket in China to reach orbit.

BEIJING, April 2 (Reuters) - Beijing Tianbing Technology Co on Sunday successfully launched a kerosene-oxygen rocket, becoming the first private Chinese launch company to send a liquid-propellant ...

This 'self-eating' rocket consumes itself for fuel. Scientists hope it'll curb space junk. Engineers at University of Glasgow developed the rocket prototype capable of flying beyond Earth's ...

The first stage of the Saturn V had five F-1s for a total lift-off thrust of 7.5 million pounds. The fully-fueled Saturn V weighed 6.5 million pounds. The F-1 used RP-1, a type of kerosene, and liquid ...