This video takes you inside the facility responsible for building the F135, the engine that powers the F-35 fighter jet. With over 40,000 pounds of thrust, it is the most powerful operational fighter ...
Jeff Thornburg helped turn a government research project into SpaceX’s most powerful rocket engine. Now, he’s trying to do the same thing at his startup Portal Space Systems, which is taking an idea ...
New research from UBC Okanagan mathematically demonstrates that the universe cannot be simulated. Using Gödel’s incompleteness theorem, scientists found that reality requires “non-algorithmic ...
GE Aerospace in Cincinnati is using a 747 aircraft as a flying laboratory to test jet engines under extreme conditions, pushing new designs to their limits to ensure safety and performance. “We are ...
In the endless pursuit of faster, more efficient travel, engineers have been cooking up all kinds of new forms of propulsion. One of the most interesting to emerge in the last decade is the electric ...
Jet fuel prices in the U.S. have more than doubled in a matter of weeks as Middle East tensions squeeze supply, fueling concerns airlines could run short of fuel. Prices jumped from about $2.17 to ...
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un observed a test of a high-thrust, solid-fuel engine for weapons and hailed it as a development to boost the country’s strategic military capability, state media ...
This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. North Korea tested a powerful solid-fuel rocket engine, advancing its program to develop intercontinental ...
China-based researchers have reportedly tested a solid rocket engine under simulated pressures of 200 meters (656 feet) underwater. Typically, submarine-launched ballistic missiles (SLBMs) like the ...
close-up of jet engine nacelle with a strake on the side - Dinujaya/Shutterstock There are many components that go into a jet engine, from combustors to compressors to those gigantic fans that are a ...
The dawn of the jet age changed the landscape of commercial flight forever, giving rise to affordable, faster travel hallmarked by chic flight attendants and non-stop flights that could take you ...
GE Aerospace (GE) tapped Palantir Technologies (PLTR) as part of a new U.S. defense contract aimed at boosting readiness for the Air Force’s T-38 training fleet, marking the first digitally enabled ...