Russian scientists have developed a plasma electric rocket engine that could enable travel to Mars in just one to two months.

NASA and General Atomics tested the fuel by exposing it to temperatures up to 3,000 Kelvin (4,940 Fahrenheit or 2,727 Celsius ...

NASA is developing a groundbreaking spacecraft concept designed to revolutionize Mars travel. The ambitious plan involves ...

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

The Power and Propulsion Element (PPE) acts as Gateway’s service module, providing solar electric propulsion for ... also for future human missions to Mars. The Preliminary Design Review ...

NASA is working on a groundbreaking nuclear electric propulsion system that could dramatically speed up trips to Mars. The ...

Two United States based firms have entered into a partnership to advance high-power nuclear electric ... around the solar system. NEP enables human-timescale missions to Mars, Jupiter, and beyond ...

The trip to Mars and back is not one for the faint ... One option NASA is exploring is nuclear electric propulsion, which employs a nuclear reactor to generate electricity that ionizes, or ...

But if we are to expand humankind's firsthand reach into the solar system beyond the Moon, we need new, better, and more effective means of propulsion ... going to head for Mars and elsewhere ...

The AEPS is a solar electric propulsion system that uses xenon as its propellant, much like existing ion engines. Where it differs is in the power output, which should allow it to work as the ...

Hence an electric propulsion system is also referred to as an ion engine. The energy for the electromagnetic fields is often provided by solar arrays, and hence the technology is sometimes ...