NASA’s latest breakthrough, the Rotating Detonation Engine (RDE), could revolutionize space travel with up to 5% greater fuel ...
Electric propulsion is being increasingly used on space missions and could ultimately replace thrusters using chemical ...
On Episode 144 of This Week In Space, Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik take a look a pair of private moon missions by Firefly ...
General Atomic's new nuclear fuel was subjected to the maximum heat of a reactor for 20 minutes in the latest tests.
China's achievement is valuable for long-term space exploration, enabling self-sufficiency and enabling missions like a ...
The Starship — the world’s biggest and most powerful rocket — had launched ... successful catch in Starship history. The engines on the still-ascending spacecraft, however, started shutting ...
The launch was conducted after a 27-hour countdown and the 50.9-metre tall rocket took off at around 6.23 am from the second ...
When humans dream of venturing farther into the cosmos, one question looms: how do we sustain life and the journey toward the ...
Nayuta Space secured “tens of millions ... oxygen engines developed by Beijing Aerospace Propulsion Technology Co. Ltd., a commercial rocket engine maker founded in 2018. The company aims ...
Today, rockets heavily rely on chemical propulsion. Deep space probes like Voyager 1 and 2, meanwhile, have used ion propulsion to reach further than any human-made spacecraft. While chemical ...