XCOR Aerospace announced today that it had won a $3.3 million contract with ATK as part of ATK’s contract to develop low-cost LOX/methane rocket propulsion for NASA. Together with ATK, XCOR will ...
Alliant Techsystems recently demonstrated a critical capability of its liquid oxygen (LOX)/Methane rocket engine by igniting it in a vacuum chamber. The successful ignition test was designed to ...
BREMEN, Germany—Chinese state space industrial group Casc will begin testing a demonstrator methane-burning rocket engine using the expander configuration in November. Discussion of the work at the ...
SINGAPORE—Korean Air’s Aerospace Division (KAL-ASD) and Hyundai Rotem have launched a joint program to develop a 35-ton-class reusable methane rocket engine for future launch vehicles. The effort is ...