It’s fuelled by liquid methane, a first for a university-built rocket. The craft is constructed out of 6″ aluminium pipe sections, which were a best-case trade-off between weight, cost ...

The launch of a methane-powered rocket would cost $40.5 million versus $45.5 million for Soyuz-2.1b MOSCOW, September 19. /TASS/. Russia’s Roscosmos state corporation said in a presentation ...

MOSCOW, August 31. /TASS/. The Progress Rocket and Space Center within the federal space agency Roscosmos submitted the conceptual design of the Amur methane-powered carrier rocket with a reusable ...

It is China's first medium-lift launch vehicle with a stainless steel rocket body that is powered by liquid oxygen-methane engines and recoverable after ocean splashdown. The test involved full ...

Zhuque-2 stands out as the first methane-powered rocket to reach orbit. However, it faces competition from larger rockets, including SpaceX's Starship and ULA's Vulcan, both set for potential ...

The gargantuan rocket blasted off from SpaceX's Boca Chica, Texas, manufacturing and flight test facility on the Gulf Coast at 5:37 p.m. Eastern Time, firing up 33 methane-burning Raptor engines ...