A solid-propellant rocket or solid rocket is a rocket with a rocket engine that uses solid propellants (fuel/oxidizer). The earliest rockets were solid-fuel rockets powered by gunpowder; they were ...

Californians will be able to look to the sky to see an unarmed missile as the Air Force is set to launch the Minuteman III ...

Solid-fuel rockets are the dream weapons of military rocketeers. They have no pumps or valves to go wrong and are always ready to fire. Their big trouble is that they are harder to control than ...

[KoD] and [Navic] are building solid propellant motors using sugar and potassium nitrate. They cook up the two ingredients along with water and a bonding agent. They find that corn syrup is ...

The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has successfully developed a 10-tonne propellant mixer for solid motors. This ...

Boron is the fifth lightest element, has a high intrinsic energy density, and is cheap, abundant and stable — making it of interest as a solid rocket fuel and as an additive to jet fuels to ...

The test will launch an unarmed Minuteman III missile, of which 400 are in service at bases in Wyoming, Montana and North ...

India's Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has developed a 10-tonne propellant mixer for solid motors. This mixer was created ...

This is the first failed launch of an Epsilon rocket. The solid-fuel rocket lifted off from the Uchinoura Space Center in Kimotsuki, Kagoshima Prefecture, at around 9:50 a.m., JAXA said.

SRIHARIKOTA: The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has successfully developed a powerful new propellant mixer for ...