NASA and Aerojet Rocketdyne are taking a big step in testing a new ion propulsion engine that will help power lunar exploration. The Advanced Electric Propulsion System (AEPS) has been undergoing ...

Contact systems physically interact with debris through means such as nets or harpoons and slow it down to a safe level for deorbiting. The challenge with this approach is that most debris is spinning ...

Agile Space Industries (Agile) has taken an important step toward the development of lunar landers for commercial lunar missions and supporting the return of humans to the Moon under NASA’s Artemis ...

Contact systems physically make contact with the debris, such as by a net or a grappling hook, and slow the debris to a point where it can deorbit safely. This method faces the challenge that most ...

TAMPA, Fla. — Pale Blue has raised an extra $8.5 million in venture capital to mass-produce water vapor propulsion systems and upgrade the technology, the Japanese small satellite thruster developer ...

The distant and cold Voyager 1 spacecraft did a clever thruster trick to help it phone home. "All the decisions we will have to make going forward are going to require a lot more analysis and caution ...

Plasmoid thrusters have had successful proof of principle experiments done in the lab at Princeton University. The systems should be compact and simple and based upon magnetism present in solar flares ...

A new generation of thrusters has been used to precisely guide and point a satellite in space, paving the way for use of this technology on future spacecraft to save weight, fuel and cut power ...

An early-stage space project suggests that future thrusters may be able to use water as propellant. Finding a way to do so would be particularly advantageous for space exploration, since water ...

If you tried to start a car that's been sitting in a garage for a couple years, you'd have to clean and replace parts then hope. But a set of thrusters aboard the Voyager 1 spacecraft successfully ...

Boeing’s plagued Starliner spacecraft will officially return without any astronauts on board, following what has proven to be a disastrous first crewed test flight. Before the mission even launched, ...

NASA's most distant spacecraft had a critical thruster problem far from home. Fixing it required a long-distance call to overcome extreme cold and dwindling power. When you purchase through links on ...