The U.S. Navy has awarded Skydweller a $1.4 million contract to develop electric propulsion as it explores all-electric ...

The delivery of three 12 kilowatt Hall-effect thrusters to NASA’s Lunar Gateway marks a pivotal moment in how the United ...

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The Cartagena shipyard of state-owned shipbuilding firm Navantia has begun the installation of the first air-independent propulsion (AIP) system on the Spanish Navy’s Cosme Garcia (S-83) ...

It's no secret that the AAM (Advanced Air Mobility) wave is sweeping over the entire world, with hundreds of proven eVTOL (electric vertical take-off and landing) concepts ready to demonstrate their ...

From bicycles to rockets, learning through experience – whether human or machine – is shaping the future of space exploration.

Aerojet Rocketdyne, a GenCorp (GY) company, announced today that the hydrazine propulsion system that it originally built in collaboration with Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in the 1970s has entered ...

Purdue has created part of a new cubesat thruster which electromagnetically accelerates plasma to produce thrust. They have successfully tested the ignition system for more than 1.5 million pulses.

Inexpensive and compact CubeSats are great for certain missions, but their simplicity can limit their applications. For one, most of them don't pack their own propulsion systems, instead hitchhiking ...

This story was originally published on WardsAuto. To receive daily news and insights, subscribe to our free daily WardsAuto newsletter. Way back in December 2010, the 110-hp propulsion system in the ...

Human crews headed for Mars are still looking at journeys that last most of a year, long enough for radiation, boredom and mechanical risk to pile up. Nuclear propulsion promises to compress that ...

(Inside Science) — Right now, there is a unique spacecraft orbiting our planet. Its secret is the iodine propellant it uses to maneuver in space. The spacecraft, launched in 2020, is a type of ...