A powerful new electromagnetic thruster has taken a major step forward after a successful high-energy test at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Fueled by lithium vapor and driven by intense magnetic ...

A prototype ion engine that uses lithium vapor as a propellant has aced its first tests, achieving 25 times more power than ...

Earlier this year, rocket scientists at NASA fired up an electromagnetic thruster powered by lithium metal vapor.

Inside a long vacuum chamber in Southern California, a spacecraft engine glowed white-hot as it pushed toward a level of ...

Centrifugal Magnetic Mirrors could enable commercial nuclear fusion reactors on Earth and are also promising for next level propulsion in space. There is funded near term work for both goals. An early ...

Helicon plasma propulsion represents a promising and multifaceted approach in the domain of electric space propulsion. At its core, the technology utilises helicon waves to generate high-density ...

A powerful new propulsion test by NASA signals a major shift in how humans could reach Mars, as engineers successfully fired ...

In the aerospace field, small satellites have gained popularity due to their low cost and flexibility, but their development has long been constrained by the availability of efficient propulsion ...