From the outside, Portal Space Systems’ headquarters looks like a standard-issue office space in a Bothell business park. But ...

However, when applied over a great deal of time in the vacuum of space, it can lead to a huge change in velocity, or delta V. This manner of operation means that an ion thruster and a small mass ...

From outside, there’s little to suggest that this is the birthplace of a remarkable piece of technology bound for the International Space Station (ISS) in the coming months. The building is home to ...

Electrospray (ES) thrusters generate low thrust via the electrostatic extraction ... ILs additionally exhibit low vapor pressure that allow for exposure in vacuum conditions. Though ionic liquid ion ...

This German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt; DLR) large-scale facility enables experiments on chemical thrusters under space-like vacuum conditions. The aim of the ...

And potentially outside the atmosphere, to wit: we present his reaction control gas thruster-controlled drone. Before anyone gets too excited, [Tom] isn’t building drones for use in a vacuum ...

For this reason, the German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt; DLR) operates the STG-ET test facility, which is specially designed for electric thrusters. The core of this ...

Credit: Rubicon Space Systems SAN FRANCISCO – Rubicon Space Systems won a NASA contract to develop a 110-newton ASCENT thruster prototype. “It’s bigger than any ASCENT thruster we’ve sold ...