Back in 1928. Kansas City Chemist J. C. Patrick stirred up a gummy mess of sulphur, carbon and hydrogen in an attempt to find a better, cheaper antifreeze. What he got was not antifreeze but one of ...
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Adranos, Inc, a Purdue-affiliated startup manufacturer of advanced solid rocket motors, officially opened a production facility for its high-performance, ...
The smell of melting plastic filled the work area of a local space company early one morning. It was the smell of recycled plastic beads being converted into solid rocket fuel grains. This is not your ...
SALT LAKE CITY--(BUSINESS WIRE)--CleanJoule, the full performance sustainable aviation fuel company, today announced SpaceSAF™, its newest product that is a drop-in replacement for super refined ...
Adranos is best known for its creation of ALITEC, an aluminum-lithium alloy fuel for solid rocket motors that it claims can produce up to a 40% increase in range. (Anduril) The U.S. Army has chosen ...
North Korea said it launched, opens new tab an intercontinental ballistic missile on Thursday, in what South Korean officials said could be related to its development of new solid-fuel rocket engines.
When U.S. rocket engineers talk about the bright possibilities of solid-fuel rockets, they always have to pause over one big requirement: how to control the fuel’s burning rate. A current system is to ...
A private Chinese firm has successfully launched the world's largest solid-propellant rocket for a second time. The company, Orienspace, launched the gigantic 30-meter Gravity-1 rocket from a barge in ...
Two Iranian cargo ships may be seeking to move key chemicals for missile propellants from China, the Financial Times reported on Wednesday. The vessels could depart from China in the next few weeks, ...