Beam Powered Space Propulsion Work from NASA, DARPA and some other companies. April 7, 2017 May 6, 2011 by Brian Wang. NASA’s Ames Research Center has recently spent $2 million on a powerful microwave ...

By focusing this energy into a relativistic electron beam, the statite could propel a spacecraft over distances of 100 to 1,000 AU. This represents a significant leap over existing propulsion ...

A Colorado Springs-based venture capital fund is backing CisLunar Industries, a company specializing in the hardware needed ...

In 2018, NASA’s experimental NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC) group published a report by scientist Chris Limbach on a proton beam propulsion system.The proposed proton beam is called ...

Here’s the gist of how it would work: First, you actually need two spacecraft. A probe blasts off on a one-way trip to deep space, while a second vehicle remains locked in an Earth orbit and ...

More information: Chen Cui et al, Vlasov simulations of electric propulsion beam, Plasma Sources Science and Technology (2024). DOI: 10.1088/1361-6595/ad98c0 Provided by University of Virginia ...

Hidden patterns in electric propulsion plasma beams could help ensure the success of long-term space missions. Go faster, farther, more efficiently. That's the goal driving spacecraft propulsion ...

NASA is investing in a far-out space exploration concept called “pellet-beam propulsion.” The technology could transport spacecraft weighing 1 ton to the orbit of Neptune in one year.

This mission concept could serve as a fast-transit interstellar precursor mission, like Starshot and Dragonfly. But for their purposes, Davoyan and his team examine a pellet-beam system that would ...

We’re going to be doing pretty special things here. We will be building large electric motors, which are the propulsion system for the next class of submarines for the US Navy. And then ultimately, we ...