Polarstern is being built for the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Center for Polar and Marine Research (AWI).The new ...

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 ...

Plasmoid thrusters have had successful proof of principle experiments done in the lab at Princeton University. The systems should be compact and simple and based upon magnetism present in solar flares ...

Kongsberg Maritime has secured a contract to supply its innovative rim-drive thrusters for a new advanced acoustic research ...

Starlight’s Crucible Hall-effect thruster and Benchmark’s 22-newton Ocelot bipropellant thruster each undergo testing for a range of targeted mission applications. Credit: Benchmark Space Systems ...

(Credit: Wärtsilä) Wärtsilä WST-E embedded electric steerable thruster (Credit: Wärtsilä) One of three newly introduced Wärtsilä WST-R retractable thrusters – the WST-14R (Credit: Wärtsilä) The ...

Demand for electric propulsion is growing for space applications and the proposed technological solutions are evolving fast. Gridded Ion Technology allows a more efficient management of Xe, providing ...

An engineer who once worked with NASA says he has built a machine that can push against gravity without burning a drop of ...

L3Harris Technologies said Jan. 5 it will sell a majority stake in its space propulsion business to private equity firm AE ...

This new propulsion system could rewrite the rules of spaceflight—not to mention completely defy conventional physics.

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 ...

The primary structure of Gateway's Power and Propulsion Element (PPE) undergoing assembly, integration, and testing at ...