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

The $34.9 million award will launch the Space Power and Propulsion for Agility, Responsiveness and Resilience Institute — also known as SPAR. The goal: developing new high-efficiency power and ...

Airbus' postponement of a zero-emission hydrogen-powered commercial aircaft will send a chill through decarbonization efforts of an aviation industry already struggling to keep its net-zero 2050 ...

But before that can happen, nuclear thermal propulsion (NTP) technologies still have quite a way to go before we could blast astronauts through space on a nuclear rocket. However, earlier this ...

Drone Launches Ascendance’s Hybrid Propulsion System is published in Advanced Air Mobility Report, an Aviation Week ...

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

This leads to direct and indirect space savings.Today the big challenge is the podpropulsion. Pod-propulsion is an industry standard today in passenger cruise ships and has been applied also for ...

A new test of nuclear propellant fuel under space-like conditions has been hailed as a success by NASA and General Atomics ...

As more satellites, telescopes, and other spacecraft are built to be repairable, it will take reliable trajectories for ...

Where is all the water that may form oceans on distant planets and moons? The SPHEREx astrophysics mission will search the ...

Suggested improvements focus on small spacecraft and propulsion hardware mass optimization rather than on specific impulse enhancement. Propellantless propulsion systems are also recommended for small ...

Russian scientists develop space propulsion system that could reach Mars within 1-2 months 'Interplanetary trips are likely to become much faster too and locations beyond the Solar System might ...