Sedna will make its closest approach to the Sun in 2076, giving us a rare opportunity to visit the planetoid before it drifts ...

Such a new pulsed plasma propulsion system driven with one thousand pulses per second would already have thrust-to-area ratios (50-150 kN/m²) of modern jet engines. An array of thrusters could enable ...

Scientists have proposed an experimental spacecraft that could reach one of the farthest known objects in the solar system in ...

R ussian scientists at Rosatom's Troitsk Institute are developing a plasma propulsion system that could change space travel.

Plasma propulsion concepts are gridded-ion thrusters that accelerate and emit more positively charged particles than negatively charged ones. To enable the spacecraft to remain charge-neutral, a ...

Momentus, a Santa Clara, California, startup building an in-space transportation business, successfully tested its water plasma propulsion in orbit on the El Camino Real mission, a 16-unit cubesat.

Travel to the moon, asteroids, Mars and other nearby destinations could become more affordable if a Virginia-based company achieves its goal of building cheaper electric space propulsion. The firm ...

They are making progress towards creating an electrodeless plasma thruster used to propel spacecraft. There are many methods of propulsion used to accelerate spacecraft and artificial satellites. And ...

The concept is roughly similar to other plasma propulsion systems, such as the ion engines that power NASA's asteroid-exploring Dawn spacecraft, but VASIMR is capable of much greater thrust, ...

Travel to the moon, asteroids, Mars and other nearby destinations could become more affordable if a Virginia-based company achieves its goal of building cheaper electric space propulsion. The firm ...