SpaceX has offered holiday greetings via a spot of synchronized rocket-engine nozzle steering ... is a wonderful example of the nozzles’ Thrust Vector Control (TVC) mechanism, a technique ...

NASA's F/A-18 (left) and X-31 are among the airplanes used to gather data for thrust ... control the nozzle independently,” says Chris Flynn, Pratt & Whitney’s F119 director. Flaps in the ...

X-Bow Systems, a US supplier of advanced manufactured solid rocket motors (SRMs), has announced the successful test-fire of the Bolt Rocket equipped with the XB-32 SRM. The XB-32 motor, part of X ...

An EDF (electric duct fan) is a motor that basically functions ... design into a squat tester jet that adjusts thrust in sync with the aircraft’s control surfaces, as you can see in the header ...

At Airshow China 2018, a J-10B thrust vector control demonstrator equipped with an engine with 3D thrust vectoring control nozzle delivered a flight performance. An engine with a 3D thrust ...

The Cert-2 launch October 4 overcame an anomaly on one of Vulcan's strap-on solid rocket boosters, which lost its exhaust nozzle but kept firing with degraded thrust. The rocket's twin BE-4 main ...

The most significant change from the standard Su-27UB was the addition of 2D thrust-vectoring nozzles, which replaced the standard exhaust system to allow directional control of engine thrust.

If all goes to plan, the Mars Ascent Vehicle will be the first rocket ever to launch on another planet. NASA has test-fired rocket motors as part of the development of an ascent vehicle designed ...