With Sunbird in Orbit: A spacecraft launches to LEO (~9.4 km/s), docks with a Sunbird, and then the Sunbird’s fusion propulsion handles the rest. 3–5 km/s to Mars or 6–10 km/s to Jupiter. The initial ...

Part two of a series on the future of space exploration. We will explore exotic methods of propulsion that could propel us to neighboring star systems and beyond. What will these future propulsion ...

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After more than a decade in the United States, nuclear physicist Liu Chang, whose research has been crucial in the journey to achieve fusion energy, has left Princeton University for a position at ...

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Technicians with ESA (European Space Agency) and Airbus installed the four solar array wings on NASA's Orion spacecraft for Artemis II on March 3. The solar array wings, attached to the service ...

Mission engineers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory face a critical challenge: how to keep these aging spacecraft alive for as long as possible. To conserve energy, instruments are being ...

The work, which was completed with the RTX Technology Research Center, marks another step forward for this novel propulsion concept, which offers high thermal efficiency and performance in a ...

The child’s haunting final words “Daddy, I can’t see” came moments before her collapse, and despite 40 minutes of emergency resuscitation, she passed away within two hours of receiving the initial ...

The inside of the DIII-D fusion vessel. The iridescent hues seen on some tiles lining the vessel come from atoms that can become lodged in the walls during plasma experiments. Credit: General Atomics ...

Frost, strong winds and fog expected as cold front sweeps across Saudi Arabia Climatologists have identified this wave as "Bard Al Ajooz" (the Old Woman’s Cold), a well-known late-season cold ...