The fastest serve ever recorded by a ping-pong player moved at about 70 mph (113 km/h). Professor Mark French of Purdue University's Mechanical Engineering Technology department and his graduate ...

An iterative method outlined by Green & Southwell (1944), but not applied in their paper for the reason that it makes no use of 'relaxation methods', is here applied to determine the supersonic regime ...

A bit of serendipity while carrying out a routine calibration led a researcher to discover a new method to measure the pressure of supersonic nozzles. This is a significant breakthrough — with ...

Benjamin Longmier, Michigan University, is developing the CubeSat Ambipolar Thruster (CAT), a new rocket propulsion system powered by the Sun and propelled by water, which will push small spacecraft ...

Tesla have boldly claimed that one day they’ll ship a Roadster complete with a cold-gas thruster for truly ridiculous acceleration. Whether or not that ever comes to pass remains to be seen, but ...

Bengaluru: Water rockets, autonomously navigating drones and mobile rocket launchers were some of the major attractions at the annual Open Day organised by the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) on ...