A one-way trip to the Mars usually takes about 9 months, but one team out of Russia thinks they can knock that down to 30 ...

The Xenon/Krypton facility is a 2-meter-diameter by 4-meter-long space simulation chamber for ground-testing flight-scale ion propulsion systems. The chamber is evacuated to ultimate pressure using ...

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Electricity from the cells powers a krypton ion propulsion system so that each satellite can move to a designated spot in the constellation. SpaceX Consider this. There are just under 10,000 stars ...

A form of electric propulsion known as Hall thrusters — a type of ion thruster — may actually pack more bang for the buck than expected. Hall thrusters have conventionally been used to adjust the ...

Scientists are working on a new rocket thruster which could open up “never-ending” deep space exploration by using any type of metal as fuel. The team at the University of Southampton say that metals ...

For most of the last decade, the U.S. relied almost entirely on Russia for rocket engines and crewed launches into space. Partly to force the development of domestic solutions, Congress passed the ...