While these massive devices are marvels of human engineering, the real workhorses of the space industry are the immensely ...

A Hall thruster is a high-efficiency propulsion device using plasma that is used for various difficult space missions, such ...

Loaded with 922 kg of xenon propellant, engineers have estimated that ... being fitted with three of the same xenon ion thrusters used on the Deep Space 1 program, though only firing one at ...

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

Predicting the lifetime of an electric ion thruster is notoriously difficult. You have to account for the chamber wall effects, which are not present in space environments. Researchers within ...

A research team presents an AI assessor for Hall-effect ion thrusters, the engines of satellites and space probes.

An electrospray engine applies an electric field to a conductive liquid, generating a high-speed jet of tiny droplets that ...

The DLR-Institute of Aerodynamics and Flow Technology performs a lifetime qualification test of ArianeGroup’s radio frequency gridded ion thruster RIT2x in the Electric Space Propulsion Test Facility ...

This 3D printing technology could allow astronauts to manufacture satellite engines in space, eliminating the need for Earth-based launches.

Voyager 1, the most distant human-made object traveling through interstellar space, encountered ... contact with Earth, NASA engineers had to switch to a backup thruster system, carefully ...

A research team from KAIST Nuclear and Quantum Engineering presents an AI assesser for Hall-effect ion thrusters, the engines ...