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

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 ...

The first on-orbit testing of an Arkadia Space propulsion system is scheduled to launch in March on a D-Orbit ION Satellite on a SpaceX Transporter 13 rideshare. Arkadia Space developed the 250 ...

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.

Electric propulsion is being increasingly used on space missions and could ultimately ... Hence an electric propulsion system is also referred to as an ion engine. According to Sir Isaac Newton's ...

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 ...

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 of satellites and space probes.