American space agency NASA announced the first major test of a new lithium-fed magnetoplasmadynamic (MPD) thruster that could ...

NASA has plans for a giant leap in its method of space travel, beginning with a nuclear-powered mission to Mars that's ...

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

NASA fired up a prototype of its electromagnetic thruster inside a vacuum chamber, reaching power levels of up to 120 ...

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Researchers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory have developed a new thruster that increases power 25 times stronger than ...

Inside a long vacuum chamber in Southern California, a spacecraft engine glowed white-hot as it pushed toward a level of ...

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Every year, companies and space agencies launch hundreds of rockets into space—and that number is set to grow dramatically with ambitious missions to the moon, Mars and beyond. But these dreams hinge ...

Dassault has selected Spain’s Arkadia Space to supply the propulsion system for its VORTEX-D reusable spaceplane demonstrator ...

If you are a student of space history or tracked the space industry before billionaires and venture capital changed it forever, you probably know the name Rocketdyne. A half-century ago, Rocketdyne ...