Blue Origin, the reusable rocket startup created and bankrolled by Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos, successfully fired the thrust chamber of a hydrogen-fueled engine being developed with help from a ...

The Voronezh rocket engine building center (part of Energomash integrated rocket engine building structure of Roscosmos) has successfully completed a cycle of fire tests of the standard chamber of the ...

Engines need a perfect ratio of air to fuel for optimal combustion, and too much of either comes with its own set of ...

The SpaceX Raptor engine has set a new record for the highest pressure in a record engine. The Russian RD-180 held the highest record pressure in its combustion chamber for decades. It had a pressure ...

Despite a highly-publicized series of accidents this year, air travel is one of the safest ways to move large numbers of people over long distances. Much of the credit for the extreme rarity of ...

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Every little bit of efficiency a fleet can squeeze out of engines can go a long way in maintaining a healthy profit margin. Even for fleets that spec the latest in aero kits, low rolling resistant ...