A hypersonics weapon startup is lining up a massive new funding round to scale its business with the U.S Department of ...

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 ...

Researchers from MIT have flown a plane with no moving parts for the first time. It is powered by an "ion drive" which uses high powered electrodes to ionise and accelerate air particles, creating ...

The reason for surprise is that an ion drive delivers only a tiny amount of thrust. This does not matter in the vacuum of space, because without friction to hold a spacecraft back, ...

Hypersonic weapons are capable of flying at five times the speed of sound. (Luke Lamborn/U.S. Navy) WASHINGTON — The U.S. Army sees opportunities for industry to drive down the cost of producing ...

AUKUS partners are cranking up the hypersonic arms race with a bold new pact, pooling resources, ... AUKUS Supercharging Joint Hypersonic Weapon Drive. Date. 11/22/2024 1:16:01 AM ...

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.

"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).

Dublin, Dec. 05, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The "Global Hypersonic Weapons Growth Opportunities" report has been added to ResearchAndMarkets.com's offering. This research service examines the global ...

Air Force’s Hypersonic Scramjet Missile a ... the charged ion-filled plasma then passed through magnetohydrodynamics generators to produce electric current up to 212 kilowatts while using .26 ...

For many years, Israel’s multilayered air defence system has repelled missile attacks from Hamas and Hezbollah. Two experts explain how Iranian missiles have broken through ...