Ad Astra Rocket Company has spent over two decades developing the Variable Specific Impulse Magnetoplasma Rocket (VASIMR), a highly efficient electric propulsion system. VASIMR operates by ...

“Antimatter propulsion is a groundbreaking technology with potential to transform space exploration, enabling travel to ...

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But for now, he says, there are other better options, such as nuclear thermal electric propulsion. Another idea is to use chemical rockets to lift off from Earth and to land on Mars. But for the ...

Getting places in space quickly has been the goal of propulsion research for a long time. Rockets, our most common means of ...

The team aims to combine the best of both worlds: the power of chemical rockets with the efficiency of electric propulsion.

VASIMR, the propulsion system Ad Astra has been working on for more than 20 years, is a magnetoplasma rocket, a type of electric propulsion system. Ion drives are the most commonly known form of ...

Harnessing this energy could make voyages to the outer reaches of the Solar System — or even to neighboring stars — feasible ...

The AEPS is a solar electric propulsion system that uses xenon as its propellant, much like existing ion engines. Where it differs is in the power output, which should allow it to work as the ...

Desert Works Propulsion, leading provider of electric propulsion (EP) expertise as a service, proudly announces the launch of DW-1, its ...

New Atlas detailed how CycloTech is unveiling a demonstrator version of an electric vertical take-off ... that its CycloRotor tech makes it the only propulsion system that "can control the thrust ...

An intelligent manufacturing base for commercial satellite components started operations recently in Chengdu, Sichuan ...