A powerful new electromagnetic thruster has taken a major step forward after a successful high-energy test at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Fueled by lithium vapor and driven by intense magnetic ...

For years, nuclear propulsion sat in the same category as so many ambitious space ideas, impressive on paper, always a few ...

A prototype ion engine that uses lithium vapor as a propellant has aced its first tests, achieving 25 times more power than ...

Earlier this year, rocket scientists at NASA fired up an electromagnetic thruster powered by lithium metal vapor.

It has long become obvious that if we are to expand our reach into the solar system, the current means of propulsion for spaceships would simply not do. With such goals set for the near future, the ...

A team of Texas A&M engineering students are working on a technology called optical propulsion, which could cut travel time ...

For decades, nuclear propulsion has been a fixture of aerospace engineering proposals and government studies, always promising, never quite leaving the laboratory. That changes in 2028. NASA announced ...

Reaching the nearest star system, Alpha Centauri, would take hundreds of thousands of years using current rocket propulsion technology. Researchers in the J. Mike Walker '66 Department of Mechanical ...

Credit: Arkadia Dassault Aviation’s Vortex spaceplane demonstrator will use Arkadia Space-made thrusters for in-orbit maneuvering, the supplier said. Arkada said April 21 it would supply the 250-N ...

Viewed from orbit, Jackass Flats — situated in southern Nevada about 65 miles northwest of Las Vegas — could easily be confused for Mars. The alluvial basin is full of tan and gray regolith, hued ...

Quantum Space has acquired Phase Four’s multi-mode propulsion assets to boost its capability to deliver highly maneuverable, persistent and cost-efficient platforms for national security, civil and ...