The delivered thrusters will enable the Gateway station to reach and maintain its orbit around the Moon, supporting Artemis ...

The delivery of three 12 kilowatt Hall-effect thrusters to NASA’s Lunar Gateway marks a pivotal moment in how the United ...

Aerospace company L3Harris announced it has completed testing of the Advanced Electric Propulsion System (AEPS) thrusters for ...

The Dual Propulsion Experiment (DUPLEX) developed by Champaign-Urbana Aerospace uses Teflon and Delrin to generate thrust.

(THE CONVERSATION) There are about 15,000 satellites orbiting the Earth. Most of them, like the International Space Station and the Hubble Telescope, reside in low Earth orbit, or LEO, which tops out ...

Back in January, a small spacecraft built by a California-based company called Impulse Space launched along with a stack of ...

Every year, Santa Claus races around the globe in a matter of hours to bring presents to children all over the world.

Autonomous free-flying robots aboard the International Space Station (ISS) frequently lose their bearings. Without gravity to distinguish up from down, even precision sensors suffer from accumulating ...

When NASA’s free-flying helpers on the International Space Station drifted into trouble, the solution did not come from a new thruster or a last-minute software patch. It came from a virtual copy of ...

Even the best telescopes can’t see exoplanets. It’s all about watching for jiggly stars, blue shifts, and transits.

SAN FRANCISCO – Benchmark Space Systems’ ASCENT-fueled Macaw thruster performed a 10-minute continuous burn, clearing the way for an on-orbit application of the propulsion technology, the company ...

Starlight and stardust are not enough to drive the powerful winds of giant stars, transporting the building blocks of life ...