NASA wants to know how the launch industry’s chic new rocket fuel explodes

For more than 60 years, nearly every large rocket used some combination of the same liquid and solid propellants. Refined ...
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How NASA is Collecting Explosion Data for Next Generation Rockets

Commercial launch providers continue to advance propulsion technology with a renewed focus on liquid oxygen and methane ...
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NASA takes urgent steps to save Swift Observatory before it falls to Earth

NASA is facing a race against time to save its 21-year-old spacecraft, the Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory, which has been on a critical mission to study some of the most powerful explosions in the ...
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The fuel set to propel NASA’s moon crew is notorious for leaking. So why use it?

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. NASA's Space Launch System rocket and Orion spacecraft, pictured here on February 1, are currently on Launch Pad 39B at Kennedy ...