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Lunar Trailblazer: NASA’s Clever Mission That Will Map the Moon’s Water—Without Wasting Fuel
NASA’s Lunar Trailblazer mission, set to launch on February 26, 2025, is charting a bold new course to explore the Moon in ...
How NASA's Lunar Trailblazer will make a looping voyage to the moon
Before arriving at the moon, the small satellite mission will use the gravity of the sun, Earth, and moon over several months ...
Interesting Engineering15d
Lightsail propulsion could enable interstellar travel at speeds never before imagined
Interestingly, the spacecraft would use an innovative propulsion method: lightsails. These types of reflective sails use the pressure from lasers or starlight to propel spacecraft. These ultrathin ...
Space.com21d
Electric spacecraft propulsion may soon take a leap, thanks to new supercomputer
Hence an electric propulsion system is also referred to as an ion engine. According to Sir Isaac Newton's third law of motion, every action has an equal and opposite reaction. The plume of ions ...
Business Wire24d
ACEL Power and Gospel Boat Forge Pioneering Agreement to Deliver 1,000 Electric Propulsion Units Over Five Years, Accelerating Marine Industry Innovation.
Aligned with global zero-emissions initiatives, Gospel has committed to purchasing 1,000 electric propulsion units from ACEL over five years under a binding Letter of Intent. A Clear Roadmap to ...
Center for International Maritime Security24d
Neither Fish nor Fowl: China’s Development of a Nuclear Battery AIP Submarine
One slide showed a basic schematic diagram that depicted a possible layout of the nuclear-powered electric propulsion plant ... when trying to develop fuel cell AIP and lithium-ion battery technology ...
Interesting Engineering25d
New nuclear fuel withstands 4,220°F heat, will fly rockets to Mars in just 45 days
Today, rockets heavily rely on chemical propulsion. Deep space probes like Voyager 1 and 2, meanwhile, have used ion propulsion to reach further than any human-made spacecraft. While chemical ...
New Atlas25d
New fuel withstands nuclear thermal propulsion reactor conditions
There are alternatives to chemical rockets, such as ion drives and solar sails ... candidate for this is the Nuclear Thermal Propulsion (NTP) system or nuclear rocket. First conceived of in ...
IFLScience25d
Nuclear Thermal Propulsion Reactor Fuel That Could Take Humans To Mars Tested At NASA Facility
A new type of nuclear thermal propulsion reactor fuel has been successfully tested at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center, with hopes that the fuel could take humans to Mars in the not-too ...
Aviation Week25d
Aviation Week/BofA Survey Shows Great Interest In Potential Embraer Narrowbody
Twelve percent of airline respondents see a blended wing body like JetZero's (right) as the most promising option for a new airliner, while just 2% favor the truss-braced wing concept Boeing is ...
Experiment validates electric ion thruster simulations
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 several ...