Russian scientists claim to have developed a plasma electric rocket engine that could enable travel to Mars in just one to ...

An innovative rocket system could revolutionize future deep space missions to Mars, reducing travel time to the Red Planet to ...

Engineers developed an engine prototype which could reach unprecedented speeds, cutting down interplanetary travel time.

Scientists are developing a new space propulsion system that uses water as fuel, promising a more sustainable way to explore ...

Russia's State Atomic Energy Corporation, Rosatom, recently developed a new spacecraft engine with impressive specifications.

As such, scientists are looking into other methods of propulsion, from pulsed plasma thrusters to solar sails. One promising option is Nuclear Thermal Propulsion (NTP). "NTP systems work by ...

RocketStar Inc. has showcased its advanced nuclear-based propulsion technology called ... performance of RocketStar’s “water-fueled pulsed plasma thruster.” A spacecraft’s thrusters ...

A laboratory prototype of a plasma electric rocket engine based on a magnetic plasma accelerator has been produced by Rosatom ...

Pulsed laser deposition (PLD) involves a laser ablation procedure, where a laser pulse interacts with a material surface to induce the formation of a plasma plume that expands away from the surface.

"Electric propulsion works by ionizing a neutral gas, usually xenon, and then using electric fields to accelerate the resulting ions. The ions, now forming a high-speed plasma beam, push the ...