The thrusters on Boeing’s cursed Starliner space capsule keep overheating — and NASA is hard at work on a fix for the issue that’s led, in part, to its astronauts being stranded on the International ...

Earlier this year, rocket scientists at NASA fired up an electromagnetic thruster powered by lithium metal vapor.

In addition, Professor Choe explained, "The Hall thruster for the cube satellite developed using AI techniques in collaboration with Cosmo Bee Co., Ltd., an electric propulsion specialist and a ...

A powerful new electromagnetic thruster has taken a major step forward after a successful high-energy test at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Fueled by lithium vapor and driven by intense magnetic ...

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Imperial College is developing a rocket thruster called the Iridium Catalysed Electrolysis CubeSat Thruster (ICE-Cube Thruster) that is so small that it can only be fabricated using techniques ...

Earlier this year, NASA mission controllers faced a challenging decision that could have marked the end of Voyager 1's decades-long journey. Launched in 1977 to explore the outer solar system, the ...

It sounds like a NASA pipe dream: a new spacecraft thruster that’s up to 40 percent more power efficient than today’s. Even better, its fuel costs less than a thousandth as much and weighs an eighth ...

The most abundant metal known to man is iron. It's everywhere. Not just on Earth, but in space as well. Astro engineers have just figured out how to use iron – or nearly any metal for that matter – as ...

I simply hate the way space exploration takes me from exultation to despair in a heartbeat, by continuously announcing magnificent programs, plans, and hardware, and continuously hitting roadblocks ...