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Engineers just completed hot-fire testing with two 3D printed rocket injectors. Certain features of the rocket components were designed to increase rocket engine performance. The injector mixed liquid oxygen and gaseous hydrogen together, which combust at temperatures over 6,000 degrees...
Edited NASA image of the exhaust plume of a Delta IV Heavy rocket carrying the Parker Solar Probe. Color/processing variant.
Original caption: At Cape Canaveral Air Force Station's Space Launch Complex 37, the Delta IV Heavy rocket with NASA's Parker Solar Probe, lifts off at 3:31 a.m. EDT on Sunday, Aug. 12, 2018. The spacecraft was built by Applied Physics Laboratory of Johns Hopkins University in Laurel, Maryland. The mission will perform the closest-ever observations of a star when it travels through the Sun's atmosphere, called the corona. The probe will rely on measurements and imaging to revolutionize our understanding of the corona and the Sun-Earth connection.
Looking at the first stage rocket boosters of a Saturn V rocket.
On display at the Saturn V Center at Kennedy Space Center, Merritt Island, Florida.