In order to study the plasma flowfield and plume structure emitted from thrusters, a remotely controlled diagnostic manipulation system is fully contained within the vacuum chamber. The system is ...

Given just how big space is, the solar system seems like it shouldn't be too mysterious. But there are actually plenty of questions that took years to solve.

Every missile is, at heart, a rocket. Rocket propulsion follows Newton’s Third Law: for every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction. Burn fuel and expel gas out the back, and the missile is ...

The sails, which have already been built into small satellites, use plasmas to propel in the same way sailboats use wind.

China is making headlines with its groundbreaking development of electric plasma jet engines, a technology that could reshape ...

Helicon plasma propulsion represents a promising and multifaceted approach in the domain of electric space propulsion. At its core, the technology utilises helicon waves to generate high-density ...

This week an in-space propulsion company, Impulse Space, announced that it had raised a significant amount of money, $300 million. This follows a fundraising round just last year in which the ...

At a June 12 ribbon-cutting event, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory unveiled a new, one-of-a-kind device that represents the next generation of research into fundamental plasma physics. The ...

Nuclear electric propulsion uses an onboard nuclear reactor to power plasma thrusters that create thrust by accelerating an ionized gas, like xenon, through a magnetic field.

The main product of the company to date, its MVP (minimum viable product – minimum viable product) – the VERA plasma propulsion system (Volume-Effective Rocket-propulsion Assembly) – was developed in ...