Rocket technology predates space exploration by almost a thousand years, and although today's computerized multi-ton launch vehicles are a lot more capable than 11th-century gunpowder-assisted ...

Electric propulsion is being increasingly used on space missions and could ultimately replace thrusters using chemical ...

NASA and its partners have successfully tested a nuclear thermal propulsion (NTP) fuel that could revolutionize deep-space ...

General Atomics Electromagnetic Systems (GA-EMS) has successfully tested the nuclear fuel that may one day propel and power the spacecraft ... Propulsion (NTP) system or nuclear rocket.

On January 7, V. Narayanan, a rocket and spacecraft propulsion expert, who heads the ISRO’s Liquid Propulsion Systems Centre (LPSC) in Thiruvananthapuram, was named successor to S. Somanath ...

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 ...

Blue Origin, the company founded by Amazon’s Jeff Bezos, launched a rocket into orbit for the ... University whose expertise includes in-space propulsion and space systems.

which could make deep space travel easier to build for. The point of the design is to use less fuel while also providing more thrust than the current propulsion systems that NASA and other rocket ...

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 ...