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

Astrophysicist and artist Ed Belbruno explains how art helps scientists communicate their work to the public and even ...

No matter how much we love our air fryers and brag about our sous vide steak dinners, the humble microwave will always have a place in our hearts. When you forget to defrost dinner or your coffee ...

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The Dragon spacecraft for Crew-10 was swapped due to battery problems, and the replacement spacecraft also had thruster issues that needed to be addressed. SpaceX is reviewing data from the recent ...

They would roughly double the efficiency of traditional chemical rockets while delivering much higher thrust than ion propulsion systems. Cutting down travel time is an incredibly important goal ...

Robert Zubrin, Presiden of the Mars Society, has developed an updated Mars plan that builds on his original Mars Direct proposal. This new plan integrates modern spaceflight technologies, such as ...

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 ...

volume = {8}, number = {86}, pages = {4672}, author = {Thomas Marks and Paul Schedler and Benjamin Jorns}, title = {HallThruster.jl: a Julia package for 1D Hall thruster discharge simulation}, journal ...

The size of a compact car, the four-legged lander is carrying 10 scientific payloads and used 21 thrusters to guide itself to touchdown near an ancient volcanic vent on Mare Crisium, a large basin ...

The emergence of satellite mega-constellations, such as SpaceX's Starlink and Amazon's Project Kuiper, has opened demand for electric propulsion technologies in the form of ion thrusters and Hall ...