Rockets embed themselves in struck targets and periodically eject incendiary fuel that inflicts Scorch. The longer this weapon goes without firing, the more fuel the next rocket contains. Rockets ...

NEW DELHI — India has established a state-of-the-art composite rocket propellant processing facility. The Advanced Center for Energetic Materials will help meet the requirements of composite ...

The Electron rocket will deploy an innovative satellite designed to test new deployable structures and materials technologies for solar sail propulsion systems, paving the way for sunlight to power ...

A common design for launch/space propulsion involves liquid propellants. In this application, often there is a gaseous pressurant stored in a Composite Overwrapped Pressure Vessel (COPV) at high ...

The 90-tonne Automated Fiber Placement (AFP) machine has been custom-designed and built for Rocket Lab and is expected to save around 150,000 manufacturing hours in the Neutron rocket’s production ...

Satellite launch company Virgin Orbit’s (Long Beach, Calif., U.S.) LauncherOne rocket — retaining filament wound composite propellant tanks — successfully reached space for the first time on Jan. 17, ...

Nestled in the shadows of Pennsylvania’s Blue Mountains, Letterkenny Munitions Center has just demilitarized its 500th rocket motor in a state-of-the-art facility engineered with both the Army mission ...

NASA has selected The Boeing Company of Huntington Beach, Calif., for the Composite Cryotank Technologies Demonstration effort. Under the contract, Boeing will design, manufacture and test two ...

These provisions are intended to prevent felons and terrorists from illegally obtaining and using large quantities of the fuel used in rockets. The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives ...

Rocket Lab finally pulled the cover off its Neutron rocket, a medium-lift vehicle that CEO Peter Beck calls “a rocket of 2050,” as the company looks to take a greater share of the launch market ...

Hackaday has been around long enough to see incredible changes in what’s possible at the hobbyist level. The tools, techniques, and materials available today border on science-fiction compared to what ...