Chennai: Researchers at Indian Institute of Technology Madras have developed a compact high-voltage electronic system that ...

NEW YORK, March 20, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- RocketStar Inc. has successfully demonstrated the FireStar Drive, a groundbreaking electric propulsion unit for spacecraft that uses nuclear ...

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A new generation of thrusters has been used to precisely guide and point a satellite in space, paving the way for use of this technology on future spacecraft to save weight, fuel and cut power ...

Sun Devil Satellite Lab engineers new innovative plasma thruster technology from The State Press on Vimeo. The Sun Devil Satellite Laboratory is a vital contributor to ASU's goal for innovation. The ...

ASU’s Pulsed Plasma Thruster Team caught lightning in a bottle last Saturday — as long as a vacuum chamber counts as a bottle. The team, part of ASU’s Sun Devil Satellite Laboratory, was testing a new ...

It has been believed that Hall thrusters, an efficient kind of electric propulsion widely used in orbit, must be large to produce a lot of thrust. Now, a new study from the University of Michigan ...

A miniature solid fuel plasma-based electrical thruster for use on CubeSats is being developed by Omnidea in collaboration with Leicester University. The new thruster is said to be the first of its ...