Viewed from orbit, Jackass Flats — situated in southern Nevada about 65 miles northwest of Las Vegas — could easily be ...

Portal Space Systems says it has successfully tested its solar thermal propulsion system at operational temperatures inside a ...

The FAST architecture, developed around ECAPS’ proprietary LMP-103S propellant, overcomes this limitation through an optimized thermal management design and a new catalyst preconditioning method. The ...

Spacecraft powered by electric propulsion could soon be better protected against their own exhaust, thanks to new ...

Space has a trash problem, with defunct satellites, rockets, and smaller broken bits orbiting Earth at high speeds. The amount of space junk is only increasing, raising the risk of collision with ...

SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Momentus Inc. (NASDAQ: MNTS) ("Momentus" or the "Company"), a U.S. commercial space company that offers transportation and other in-space infrastructure services, ...

NASA's Psyche spacecraft, located nearly 150 million miles from Earth on the way to an unexplored metal asteroid, has stopped firing its engines after detecting a problem in its propulsion system.

How do you control a nuclear space propulsion system? Very carefully. To help with this, the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) has built a simulated nuclear reactor test bed to develop the engines ...

Adam Maher serves as Founder & CEO of Ursa Space Systems Inc (Ursa), whose services empower users to make better decisions ...

China aims to put its astronauts on the moon by 2030. For NASA to get back there first, it needs SpaceX to quickly complete ...