Nuclear rockets are the future of space propulsion, and while fission propulsion ... Designed to be a space “tugboat” for interplanetary payloads, the company states that it could chop travel ...

Unlike most interplanetary probes, Dawn is not propelled by a chemical rocket engine, but by a solar-electric ion propulsion ... This innovative propulsion concept was first used in 1998 on NASA’s ...

A next-generation thruster developed by NASA may have brought the long awaited advent of interplanetary travel ... spacecraft using the NASA-H71M electric propulsion technology will be able ...

electric and chemical propulsion) and missions (for example sun-synchronous orbits, interplanetary missions, stationary orbits at Lagrange points) require an extensive portfolio of tools, which may ...

On Episode 152 of This Week In Space, Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik host Dr. Robert O'Brien, Director of the Universities Space ...

Sunbird represents a significant leap in space propulsion technology, with the potential to dramatically shorten interplanetary ... Vehicle is designed to cut mission times to Mars by half while ...

Electric (plasma) propulsion devices have been used for applications such as station-keeping and orbit transfer, in place of chemical rockets, because they provide a higher specific impulse. Detailed ...

A British company says they developed a secret nuclear rocket that could cut in half the mission times to Mars ... but two of the largest space propulsion testing chambers in the UK, if not ...