A DRACO ground test would need to capture plume exhaust fully to ensure no radioactive materials are released to the ...

For centuries, we have gazed into space with fascination, dreaming of traveling to distant planets. To turn these dreams into ...

The result is enough thrust to overcome the force of gravity. Naturally ... low-thrust forms of propulsion like the ion engine. For instance, NASA's recent Dawn mission to study the dwarf planet ...

At sunrise on Oct. 1, 2024, SL-15 launched into a perfectly clear blue sky over the desert from Spaceport America, in Las ...

The vehicle didn’t carry a cryogenic engine in its third stage and didn ... gap between them increases to 10-20 km after a day. The propulsion system on-board the ‘Target’ satellite ...

Firefly's "Blue Moon" and ispace's "Resilience" are the latest in an ongoing push to gain private-sector experience exploring ...

Bombardier's Global 7500 business jet costs between $75 million and $78 million (in 2023), fresh from the assembly line and ...

Following the historic year of 1969 that saw two successful Moon landings, 1970 opened on a more sober note. Ever-tightening ...

After the rocket engine burned out, their course resembled that of a stone hurled into the air: a simple, predictable arc governed by gravity ... in spacecraft propulsion, is akin to the erratic ...