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CNBC's Morgan Brennan talks exclusively with ULA's Tory Bruno about competition, new spacecraft, rocket engines and launch prices.

More recently, the company's next generation rocket engine blew up during a test.

«Rocket engines in general are very sooty compared to jet engines, and we think these hybrids are the sootiest of all the hydrocarbon - based rocket engines,» Ross says.

When it's finished, an engineer will be able to walk right over to the manufacturing floor and see a rocket engine milled from a piece of stainless steel or a fuel tank formed from giant sheets of aluminum.

The flight was the fourth time overall that a Virgin Galactic spacecraft fired its rocket engines during flight, and the first time since the 2014 crash.

Rolls - Royce and Boeing have both invested in rocket engine company Reaction Engines as the latest blue - chip companies to back the start - up's thermal management technology.

The Amazon founder's Blue Origin aerospace outfit will develop rocket engines for the United Launch Alliance — a joint venture between Lockheed Martin and Boeing that creates spacecraft for the U.S....

Northrop Grumman is buying Orbital ATK, a specialist in rocket engines and space flight technologies, for $ 7.8 billion (plus $ 1.4 billion in debt).

Despite blowing up an experimental upgrade to its go - to rocket engines, SpaceX says it can continue its record - setting year.

The blast occurred in one of two bays the company uses to test Merlin rocket engines — nine of which line the bottom of every reusable Falcon 9 booster.

«There's a big debate going on in the technical community that works on these things, and it's exactly about how heavy the warhead would be that North Korea could build, and what capabilities they can get out of their rocket engines,» he said.

Surprisingly, the engine was not being purposefully ignited when it exploded: According to the company source, the blast occurred during a «lox drop,» in which liquid oxygen is pumped into a rocket engine to see if it leaks.

SpaceX engineers will then have to attach four room - size Raptor rocket engines and two other engines, plus all of the other internal propellant tanks, plumbing, and electronics that a rocket requires.

To a degree, the deal will give Northrop greater certainty over its rocket engine supply.

SpaceX was testing an experimental new version of its Merlin rocket engine at the time of the blast, a company source who is familiar with the matter told Business Insider.

Another eye - catching agreement was the sale of Russia's advanced space rocket engine, RD - 180, to China.

SpaceX released video of their most powerful rocket engine being tested in McGregor, TX.

This is the rocket engine that SpaceX plans to use to go to Mars.

«The most expensive thing on the booster is the rocket engine.

She's already been on an ocean voyage to recover F - 1 rocket engines, a trip where the crew made accommodations for her, as Bezos recounted from the stage.

Deepak Atyam has co-founded and is running a NewSpace startup, Tri-D Dynamics, which focuses on mass producing liquid rocket engines for the burgeoning launch vehicle markets.

Atyam has worked at Space - X, GLXP Team Moon Express, Purdue's Zucrow Laboratory, NASA JPL (x2), LaRC (x2), and MSFC starting from the age of 17 and has led multiple successful NASA funded projects including the production and testing of the first and second fully 3D printed liquid rocket engine from a university.

Three - dimensional printers are letting doctors in Minnesota make simulated body parts in a hospital and a Brooklyn startup create rocket engines designed to put satellites into orbit, executives said Thursday at an event hosted by General Electric Co..

Ursa Major is developing high performing, 3D - printed rocket engines at a fraction of the cost of traditional engines.

But Christianity is an invitation to redirect the rocket engines towards the stars.»

Unless you're using a VitaMix blender — then, it's rocket engine science.

«They will tell us what we need to know to build rocket engines that can handle megawatts of power,» says applied physicist Tim Glover, a board member and co-founder of Ad Astra.

The rocket engines can be used for thousands of flights, potentially making scientific ventures more affordable.

This isn't mere sci - fi speculation: In a nondescript warehouse in Webster, Texas, a forward - thinking scientist is developing a prototype rocket engine that could make space travel faster than ever before.

While he was doing this work, Chang Díaz's thoughts again returned to space, and he realized the same general idea could work in a rocket engine.

To my surprise, the official is well aware of Richard Branson's space enterprise and recalls the rocket engine tests over the summer.

ROCKET engines could benefit from a natural Martian lubricant — but not to keep them oiled.

In fact, an entire industry of nimble space - vehicle ventures has sprung up in recent years, including SpaceX, headed by PayPal founder Elon Musk; Armadillo Aerospace, started by computer - game developer John Carmack; Blue Origin, a pet project of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos; and SpaceDev, which came up with the novel rocket engine that powered SpaceShipOne.

Because the nucleus is so small, these jets act like rocket engines, spinning up the comet's rotation, Jewitt said.

The traditional definition of a rocket is a vehicle, missile or aircraft which obtains thrust by the reaction to the ejection of fast moving fluid from within a rocket engine.

They are using for the second - stage rocket engine essentially the same engine that was on the Saturn [upper stages], which is a very low - tech steel - cased engine.

Instead of rocketing astronauts off into deep space, the Asteroid Redirect Mission would send a robotic spacecraft to a small asteroid, secure it (potentially by grabbing it and stuffing it into a giant high - tech bag) and tow it back to orbit the moon using a hyper - efficient kind of rocket engine technology called solar electric propulsion.

To power its new orbital launch vehicle, Blue Origin is developing a more powerful rocket engine known as the BE-4, which is a joint venture with launch provider United Launch Alliance (ULA).

Now, researchers have come up with a way to 3D print tough and flexible stainless steel, an advance that could lead to faster and cheaper ways to make everything from rocket engines to parts for nuclear reactors and oil rigs.

By repeating this tier - by - tier addition, engineers can build complex shapes, such as rocket engines.

The US has no really big liquid - fuel rocket engine in production today, and historically has been averse to large engine clusters.

Powerful rocket engines could transport us at blistering speeds on spaceplanes that minimise their fuel weight in an innovative way

Boosted by a rocket engine, a ballistic missile sails into space before releasing a warhead that plummets to its target under the force of gravity.

For instance, when the Phoenix spacecraft landed on Mars in 2008, it kicked up enough dust to reveal water ice — a surprise to its builders, who hadn't thought that the lander's relatively weak rocket engines could have moved so much material.

In the last 30 years, only two new American rocket engines have been developed.

Huge rocket engines allowed the designers to ignore any gravitational effects more subtle than the tug of the planet they were leaving and that of the planet they were headed to.

An example of what rocketeers call a pintle engine, even to a lay observer it is brilliantly straightforward, with one high - pressure coaxial fuel injector to mix rocket - grade kerosene and liquid oxygen instead of the hundreds of smaller injector holes used in other rocket engines.

> A propulsion module consisting of four stages, each with four Vulcain 2 rocket engines (now being readied for an upgrade of ESA's Ariane 5 rocket), to propel the spacecraft from low Earth orbit to Mars.

Two hot Russian rocket engines had recently become available, the NK - 33 and NK - 43.

Rocket engines, gas turbines and diesel engines experience conditions in their combustion chamber that exceed the critical conditions of their fuel, and supercritical finely atomized sprays are used to coat tablets in the production of medicines.