Inside a long vacuum chamber in Southern California, a spacecraft engine glowed white-hot as it pushed toward a level of power the United States has not reached before with this kind of electric ...

NASA’s new electric propulsion engine set a U.S. power record and could transform future Mars missions. The thrusters use ...

MIT engineers are testing a new propulsion system that combines the power and speed of conventional chemical thrusters with the precision and fuel-efficiency of electrical thrusters. The system could ...

NASA announced on Thursday that the launch of its Psyche mission has been postponed by a week, now set for October 12 instead of the earlier date of October 5. Reading time 2 minutes Artist’s concept ...

NASA has cleared Innovative Space Propulsion Systems (ISPS), a Houston-based partnership developing green rocket engines, to fly a thruster testbed on the International Space Station (ISS) The ...

A novel electromagnetic thruster passed an initial test in a specialized chamber at JPL. With further development, these thrusters could support human missions to the Red Planet. A technology that ...

NASA's Space Launch System (SLS) rocket for the Artemis 2 mission stands at 322 feet tall. The SLS is NASA's most powerful rocket, generating 8.8 million pounds of thrust. While massive, the SLS is ...

It’s no secret anymore that humanity is going to Mars in the relatively near future. Already, we’re seeing the first steps being taken toward the realization of that decades-long dream of our species, ...

NASA has tested a lithium-fed thruster that could become a workhorse for future Mars missions, and the key milestone is not just that it fired, but that it did so at power levels no previous electric ...

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