The Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre, Thiruvananthapuram has developed a special purpose motor for Human Spaceflight Programme with four reverse flow nozzles, having cant angle of 149°, termed as ...

NASA has spent a lot of time and money resurrecting the F-1 rocket engine that powered the Saturn V back in the 1960s and 1970s, and Ars recently spent a week at the Marshall Space Flight Center in ...

Modern thrust vectoring in turbofan and rocket nozzles has traditionally been performed using mechanical actuation. However, recent research has identified fluidic thrust vectoring as a promising ...

NASA has completed the first full-scale static test fire of the Booster Obsolescence and Life Extension (BOLE) solid rocket motor, the next-generation solid rocket booster for the space agency’s SLS ...

While the fate of NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) rocket hangs in the balance, the agency is pushing ahead with tests of new components needed to launch the vehicle toward the Moon. The latest test ...

General plastics’ polyurethane foam plays a crucial role in ground testing the world's largest solid rocket motor for deep space exploration. Manufacturers of rocket boosters for NASA’S space launch ...