Rocket Project at UCLA spent hours across months building a fuel tank. Project Ares, Rocket Project’s senior team, built a prototype tank with liquid oxidizer and fuel to test what pressures it could ...
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — From the tragedy of the space shuttle Columbia disaster in 2003 to the now-routine return of commercial spacecraft, heat shields — formally called thermal protection systems — are ...
The students traipsed down into the depths of the quarry on a frigid night in February 2020 to fire their liquid-fuelled rocket engine. It was an ambitious goal, less generously characterized as ...