American space agency NASA announced the first major test of a new lithium-fed magnetoplasmadynamic (MPD) thruster that could ...
Every year, companies and space agencies launch hundreds of rockets into space—and that number is set to grow dramatically with ambitious missions to the moon, Mars and beyond. But these dreams hinge ...
You're on the fourth human mission to Mars, and you're told the Odyssey spacecraft designed to take you there will be the ...
If an alien in the Alpha Centauri star system were craving pizza, it would take tens of thousands of years to deliver it ...
For years, nuclear propulsion sat in the same category as so many ambitious space ideas, impressive on paper, always a few ...
As preparations for NASA’s next Artemis mission accelerate, the agency and its mission partners aim to maximize lessons learned from Integrity, the Orion spacecraft that returned the Artemis II crew ...
Reaching the nearest star system, Alpha Centauri, would take hundreds of thousands of years using current rocket propulsion ...
Dassault has selected Spain’s Arkadia Space to supply the propulsion system for its VORTEX-D reusable spaceplane demonstrator ...
This study will identify primary technical and programmatic challenges, merits, and risks for developing and demonstrating space nuclear propulsion technologies of interest to future exploration ...
(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) (THE CONVERSATION) Every year, companies and space agencies launch hundreds of rockets ...