Aluminum-Ice Rocket Breaks 17-Year Record: China Flies 13 Times Higher
Buaa.edu.cn A Chinese research team has done something no team outside the United States had ever done before: launched a rocket powered by aluminum-ice propellant, and in doing so erased a world altitude record that had stood for 17 years. The “Ice-Flame Flying Shuttle” (冰焰飞梭, bīng yàn fēi suō) sounding rocket, developed by Beihang University’s…