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

Electric propulsion is being increasingly used on space missions and could ultimately replace thrusters using chemical ...

A laboratory prototype of a plasma electric rocket engine based on a magnetic plasma accelerator has been produced by Rosatom ...

Nuclear propulsion could be the future of space travel and NASA and General Atomics just brought us one step closer.

Russia's first space launch in 2025 also marked the final mission of its Soyuz-2.1v light launcher, with the country ...

In a major achievement, the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has successfully conducted a critical vacuum ignition ...

Rocket technology predates space exploration by almost a thousand years, and although today's computerized multi-ton launch vehicles are a lot more capable than 11th-century gunpowder-assisted ...

A research team presents an AI assessor for Hall-effect ion thrusters, the engines of satellites and space probes.

Chemical engines put the first satellite into ... candidate for this is the Nuclear Thermal Propulsion (NTP) system or nuclear rocket. First conceived of in 1945, this is a rocket that replaces ...

The engine was developed by ISRO's Liquid Propulsion Systems Centre. Meanwhile, ISRO has formed a committee headed by former ...

A research team from KAIST Nuclear and Quantum Engineering presents an AI assesser for Hall-effect ion thrusters, the engines ...