Eco-friendly alternatives to fossil fuels are venturing beyond Earth—and into space.

"Chemical rockets that we use today, even with the extra speed boost from flying by planets, or from swinging by the sun for ...

A California-based company, SpinLaunch, is making waves with its innovative satellite launch system, drawing particular ...

Nuclear propulsion could be the future of space travel and NASA and General Atomics just brought us one step closer.

Cryogenic propellant systems play a vital role in modern space travel. These systems keep rocket fuels super-cold until they're needed for propulsion. Space agencies use special tanks with thick ...

ThrustMe, a satellite propulsion company based in France, is making a strategic push into the U.S. space market, securing a ...

Aerospace propulsion is an important and wide subject from the very powerful rocket to the very small unmanned electrical driven propeller. Even for a single subject such as rocket propulsion, there ...

A research team presents an AI assessor for Hall-effect ion thrusters, the engines of satellites and space probes.

Rocket and ion engines (thrusters) solve this by using propellant that create the reaction mass. Meanwhile True Believers flock to the ‘Alt Propulsion Engineering Conference’ (APEC), as no ...

One option NASA is exploring is nuclear electric propulsion, which employs a nuclear ... we eliminate trying to fit the whole system into one rocket fairing," said Amanda Stark, a heat transfer ...

The tests showed the fuel can withstand the harsh conditions of a nuclear thermal propulsion reactor. In other words, it has the capability to one day power a nuclear rocket that could fire humans ...

Since its foundation in 1959, the DLR Institute of Space Propulsion has been the most important European research and testing facility for liquid-chemical rocket engines ... to space and is also ...