In a Saturn V rocket engine, liquid oxygen and kerosene fuel are pumped separately into the engine at high pressure. They first travel through a pre-burner, which dumps exhaust into the air.

Ninety years ago today, on March 28, 1935, Robert H. Goddard launched the first gyroscopically-stabilized liquid-fueled ...

This engine intended to be used as a torch igniter for a much larger rocket engine ... with a clear supersonic Mach diamond pattern in the exhaust.

The shape tapers toward the back, ensuring that the exhaust gases flow along its ... In the ’60s, rocket engine design and ...

Rocket exhaust plume at 30 km as obtained by high-resolution computational fluid dynamics simulations. Temperature varies from 680 K (dark yellow) to 2,400 K (bright yellow). Journalists may use ...

Fusion has long been the propulsion end-goal for interplanetary travel, and a U.K.-based company thinks on its way to ...