Rockets are hard,” Elon Musk posted after a prior Starship explosion, and Tuesday’s ninth test flight provided a dramatic ...

So how do you know which one to choose? In the following sections, you’ll learn about sources you should be referencing, propellant types, burn rate, load density and more, with each playing a ...

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Researchers are developing a new type of rocket propellant made of a frozen mixture of water and ... comprised of ALICE using fundamental techniques such as steady-state strand experiments and applied ...

Musk said the failure was linked to venting liquid oxygen propellant near the end of the burn. That venting, he said, was needed only because the vehicle was not carrying any payload.

Answer by Robert Frost, Instructor and Flight Controller at NASA, on Quora: A fuel is a substance that can burn in the presence of oxygen. An oxidizer is a source of oxygen. A propellant is the ...

That’s about the fastest I’ve been able to fire that weight bullet with any of a dozen propellants loaded in the .223 Rem. Varmint has a slightly slower burn rate than 1200-R, which makes it ...

They draw conclusions which are directly at variance with our own in the case of three out of the four propellant compositions considered, in that they deduce for the rate of burning a pressure ...

What is the difference between fuel and propellant?Robert Frost: A fuel is a substance that can burn in the presence of oxygen. An oxidizer is a source of oxygen. A propellant is the combination ...