Getting that fuel into orbit is costly, too! Ion thrusters, in their various forms, offer an alternative solution – miniscule thrust, but high fuel efficiency. This tiny push won’t get you off ...

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The testing of these kinds of innovative thrusters requires techniques that differ from those used with conventional chemical propulsion systems. For this reason, the German Aerospace Center ...

Ion thrusters are the most common primary engine powering satellites through orbital maneuvers today. But to travel from ...

This German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt; DLR) large-scale facility enables experiments on chemical thrusters under space-like vacuum conditions. The aim of the ...

A research team led by the University of Bologna is closing on building a space propulsion system that will use water as fuel. “With this project, we want to take a decisive step towards the ...

NASA astronaut Sunita Williams and Crew-9 have successfully made their way back to Earth following an unplanned 9-month ...