NASA’s Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC) program recently selected six promising projects for additional funding and development, allowing them to graduate to the second stage of development.

The NSWR is also fission-based and promising but less mature. Fusion-based propulsion (e.g., Daedalus) offers superior potential but awaits technological breakthroughs. Beamed power to ion drives or ...

-Hypersonic capability with speeds of Mach 5 or slightly better.-Advanced stealth that goes beyond the radar absorbent and non-reflective aerodynamic shapes seen in 6th- generation fighter designs.

Desert Works Propulsion (DWP) has successfully completed initial testing of multiple prototype discharge and neutralizer ...

Scientists at Russia’s state-owned Rosatom corporation have developed a prototype of a plasma electric rocket engine that could reach Mars in just 30 to 60 days, Russian media reported.The ...

What the research found. Cui specializes in building advanced computer simulations to study how plasma behaves in EP thruster plasma flows. These aren't just any simulations. They're powered by ...

Some subteams will explore three different styles of electric propulsion including the Hall thruster, the applied field magnetoplasmadynamic thruster and the electron cyclotron resonance thruster.

Rosatom’s propulsion system uses a magnetic plasma accelerator, which it hopes will reduce space travel time. Mars is 140 million miles from Earth, meaning a 30-day journey would require an ...

Hall thrusters, a key space technology for missions like SpaceX's Starlink constellation and NASA's Psyche asteroid mission, are high-efficiency electric propulsion devices using plasma technology*.

Hidden patterns in electric propulsion plasma beams could help ensure the success of long-term space missions. Go faster, farther, more efficiently. That's the goal driving spacecraft propulsion ...