Aerojet, a GenCorp (NYSE: GY – News) company, and NEC Corporation (TSE: 6701 – News) announced today that the companies will explore the feasibility of jointly supplying low power ion propulsion ...

Boeing [NYSE:BA] has been awarded three new contracts under NASA’s In-Space Propulsion Technologies program for the development of advanced xenon ion propulsion technologies. NASA awarded the projects ...

Key opportunities in the satellite propulsion system market include the rising demand for electric and hybrid propulsion ...

Using conventional rocket technology, it is estimated that it would take nearly 165,000 years for a spacecraft to reach Alpha Centauri, the closest planetary system to Earth's Solar System. New ...

The Xenon/Krypton facility is a 2-meter-diameter by 4-meter-long space simulation chamber for ground-testing flight-scale ion propulsion systems. The chamber is evacuated to ultimate pressure using ...