This is why rockets are launched vertically, to generate as much downward thrust as possible. However, those thrusters are extremely resource-hungry, gobbling up fuel and power in record time.

generating thrust. However, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) has recently completed a successful test of a different type of rocket, known as a rotating detonation engine. The engine ...

Rotating detonation rocket engines are an entirely different beast in that they generate thrust through detonation. Think of a firecracker versus a campfire. Explosions might seem patently bad for ...

Thrust propulsion testing and characterization of the UCF rotating detonation rocket engine is shown in this photo. Credit: University of Central Florida For use with coverage of the University of ...

Particularly promising is the so-called rotating detonation engine in which detonation ... at high frequency and thus generate quasi-stationary thrust. The Combustion Dynamics Group of the Rocket ...

The Rotating Detonation Engine (RDE) is a radical innovation that leverages supersonic shockwaves to generate thrust, potentially making rockets more fuel-efficient and powerful. NASA’s latest ...

The Space Launch System (SLS) core stage and rocket boosters have now been stood up and mated in preparation for NASA's ...

The slow race of getting NASA's Space Launch System rocket pieced together for next year's Artemis II moon mission jumped a ...

The pipe is packed with homemade gunpowder and provided with nozzles that create both thrust and rotation. When ignited by torches touched to seriously sketchy primers, the rocket starts to spin ...

The Rockets will play in the playoffs for the first time in five years, before five of the eight players in Ime Udoka's rotation were even in the league. Udoka is beginning to prepare the team for ...