[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 ...

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 ...

Leading aerospace and defense technology company Northrop Grumman announced the successful test-firing of a new solid ... propellant capable of operating across a wide temperature range and ...

It burns a solid propellant rod that doubles as ... This "propellant rod" is forced into the rocket engine where the two components are separated, vaporised, mixed and burned to create thrust.

A hybrid-propellant rocket is a rocket with a rocket motor that uses rocket propellants in two different phases: one solid and the other either gas or liquid. The hybrid rocket concept can be traced ...