Reaching the nearest star system, Alpha Centauri, would take hundreds of thousands of years using current rocket propulsion ...

Using even the most advanced rocket propulsion technologies available today, it would take billions ...

DARPA believes that nuclear-powered propulsion could enable rapid maneuver in space — a capability that is difficult to achieve with current electric and chemical propulsion systems. (Defense Advanced ...

Getting places in space quickly has been the goal of propulsion research for a long time. Rockets, our most common means of doing so, are great for providing lots of force but are extraordinarily ...

What physical processes govern the movement of microscopic structures capable of interacting with their environment? The ...

Just before Artemis II began its historic slingshot around the moon, Jared Isaacman, the recently confirmed NASA ...

With the move towards electric aviation comes new opportunities to explore what a powertrain looks like, and Airbus is experimenting with a new design that builds entire hydrogen propulsion units, ...

Accion Systems will supply miniature ion thrusters for Xplore’s XLEO satellite scheduled to launch in 2023. Credit: Xplore Inc. Luis Gomes was fed up with propulsion promises. As chief technology ...

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Dreams of antimatter space propulsion are closer to reality than most rocket scientists could ever imagine, says former Fermilab physicist Gerald Jackson. In fact, if money were no object, he says an ...

Electric (plasma) propulsion devices have been used for applications such as station-keeping and orbit transfer, in place of chemical rockets, because they provide a higher specific impulse. Detailed ...