Dr Patrick Neumann of the University of Sydney has developed a new ion drive as part of his PhD thesis. The drive outperforms the best one devised by NASA and holds the promise of "Mars and back ...

"Dr. Walker brings significant Li-ion battery and thermal management expertise to our team and is a great fit to lead KULR’s test engineering division into its next phase of growth," said ...

Proving yet again that Star Trek was scarily prescient, NASA has announced that its NEXT ion drive -- NASA's Evolutionary Xenon Thruster -- has operated continually for over 43,000 hours (five years).

SMART-1, the European Space Agency craft currently in orbit around the moon, makes use of a technology that was pure science fiction until the 1960s - the ion drive.