Space missions already use electric propulsion devices, where electromagnetic fields are utilized to generate the thrust of spacecraft. One such electrodeless device, which harnesses radio frequency ...

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory recently reached a significant achievement in space travel technology. They successfully ...

A new era for space propulsion? An ion engine twenty-five times more powerful than NASA's current best model has just been ...

NASA fired up a prototype of its electromagnetic thruster inside a vacuum chamber, reaching power levels of up to 120 kilowatts—the highest achieved in U.S. tests of an electric propulsion system.

Pulsar Fusion’s concept of a hyper speed, nuclear fusion rocket engine. Image credit: Pulsar Fusion. Back in 2022, researchers from the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California unveiled a ...

Within the next 15 years, NASA, China, and SpaceX plan to send the first crewed missions to Mars. In all three cases, these missions are meant to culminate in the creation of surface habitats that ...

Forward-looking: Scientists have long envisioned nuclear electric propulsion as a transformative technology for unlocking the potential of solar system exploration. Now, two companies making steady ...

EMI effects on spacecraft, radar, communications equipment, and radar, among other applications, and how to minimize them. How EMI was handled in a wireless power transfer design. The phenomenon known ...

The magnetic nozzle rf plasma thruster operated in a Mega hpt vacuum chamber at Tohoku University CREDIT Kazunori Takahashi A Tohoku University researcher has increased the performance of a high-power ...