Electric propulsion is being increasingly used on space missions and could ultimately ... propulsion system is also referred to as an ion engine. According to Sir Isaac Newton's third law of ...

Russia's State Atomic Energy Corporation, Rosatom, recently developed a new spacecraft engine with impressive specifications.

Although this particular engine was new, the design dated back to the space age. By the early 1960s, the Russians were leaps and bounds ahead of the United States in terms of space exploration.