NASA and Aerojet Rocketdyne are taking a big step in testing a new ion propulsion engine that will help power lunar exploration. The Advanced Electric Propulsion System (AEPS) has been undergoing ...

Traversal is an incredibly important component in any open world or open area RPG, and for The Outer Worlds 2, it’s no ...

France-based propulsion startup Ion-X announced Oct. 23 it will provide an upgraded version of its electrospray thruster to ...

TAMPA, Fla. — Pale Blue has raised an extra $8.5 million in venture capital to mass-produce water vapor propulsion systems and upgrade the technology, the Japanese small satellite thruster developer ...

The distant and cold Voyager 1 spacecraft did a clever thruster trick to help it phone home. "All the decisions we will have to make going forward are going to require a lot more analysis and caution ...

If you tried to start a car that's been sitting in a garage for a couple years, you'd have to clean and replace parts then hope. But a set of thrusters aboard the Voyager 1 spacecraft successfully ...

A form of electric propulsion known as Hall thrusters — a type of ion thruster — may actually pack more bang for the buck than expected. Hall thrusters have conventionally been used to adjust the ...

IIT Madras pioneers hybrid rocket thruster technology for soft landings, advancing VTOL aircraft and UAV capabilities in ...

Chennai: Researchers at Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IIT-M) developed and tested a hybrid rocket thruster capable ...

An early-stage space project suggests that future thrusters may be able to use water as propellant. Finding a way to do so would be particularly advantageous for space exploration, since water ...