"It's not like a car's fuel tank, which has a little float that floats on top of the gasoline and moves a lever," Collicott said. "Floats don't work in space because everything is floating." ...

People visit TCT Asia 2025 at the National Exhibition and Convention Center (Shanghai) in Shanghai, east China, March 17, 2025. TCT Asia 2025, a three-day event featuring industrial 3D printing and ...

When a rocket motor using solid propellant is lit it continues to burn until all of the fuel is consumed ... for a valve which connects to the oxygen tank. There is a nozzle on the outflow ...

is repackaged from the backend of Space Shuttle Orbiters into a more traditional inline rocket stage. SLS upsized the Shuttle elements — the big fuel tanks are now longer, and there are more ...

The Polish Space Agency also addressed the ordeal in a statement, noting that the rocket part’s trajectory would have carried it toward Poland. Images of what appears to be an intact fuel tank ...

After lift-off, the rocket quickly burns through its fuel. Once the tanks are empty, they break away from the rest of the rocket and fall back to Earth. When the astronauts reach the ISS ...