A prototype ion engine that uses lithium vapor as a propellant has aced its first tests, achieving 25 times more power than ...
Earlier this year, rocket scientists at NASA fired up an electromagnetic thruster powered by lithium metal vapor.
NASA fired up a prototype of its electromagnetic thruster inside a vacuum chamber, reaching power levels of up to 120 ...
Inside a long vacuum chamber in Southern California, a spacecraft engine glowed white-hot as it pushed toward a level of ...
Researchers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory have developed a new thruster that increases power 25 times stronger than ...
Indian startup GalaxEye has placed its first satellite, Drishti, into orbit aboard a SpaceX ...
The cuts, proposed in the Trump administration's 2027 budget request to Congress, would pose further challenges to the venerable La Cañada Flintridge facility and its space missions.
This week, NASA announced it had shut down one of that spacecraft's remaining science instruments — not because the mission ...
NASA confirmed Thursday that SpaceX will launch the European Space Agency’s Rosalind Franklin Mars rover, perhaps as soon as late 2028, on a Falcon Heavy rocket from Kennedy Space Center, Florida. So ...