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US firm delivers 12-kilowatt thrusters that offer higher efficiency for NASA’s lunar gateway
A Melbourne-based company has completed testing and delivery of three 12-kilowatt Advanced Electric Propulsion ...
Aerospace company L3Harris announced it has completed testing of the Advanced Electric Propulsion System (AEPS) thrusters for ...
Technicians with ESA (European Space Agency) and Airbus installed the four solar array wings on NASA's Orion spacecraft for Artemis II on March 3. The solar array wings, attached to the service module ...
[Vienna, Austria] — [May 27, 2025] — Enpulsion, a global leader in electric propulsion systems for small satellites, announces the launch of Nexus, its most advanced propulsion system to date.
On April 23, NASA launched a solar sail protype to orbit around our planet — a piece of technology that could very well revolutionize the way we think about spacecraft propulsion. Then, on Aug. 29, ...
If we achieve advanced nuclear, antimatter propulsion or other advance propulsion it would be possible to achieve near constant acceleration. This would enable travel times to Mars in the 3-8 day ...
An experimental NASA solar sail can be seen in the night sky as it orbits the Earth. NASA's Advanced Composite Solar Sail System (ACS3) launched in April 2024 atop a Rocket Lab Electron rocket. The ...
Aerojet Rocketdyne delivers DART spacecraft propulsion systems ahead of 2021 asteroid impact mission
The dual chemical and electric propulsion systems for NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) were recently delivered by Aerojet Rocketdyne to the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) ...
The Dual Propulsion Experiment (DUPLEX) developed by Champaign-Urbana Aerospace uses Teflon and Delrin to generate thrust.
The Psyche spacecraft launched nearly two years ago and is currently on its way to rendezvous with a unique asteroid in an effort to understand the origins of Earth. Although it’s still a few years ...
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