A former Japan Airlines Boeing 777 has been turned into a high-capacity flying lab by NASA, giving the agency a serious ...
A powerful new electromagnetic thruster has taken a major step forward after a successful high-energy test at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Fueled by lithium vapor and driven by intense magnetic ...
A prototype ion engine that uses lithium vapor as a propellant has aced its first tests, achieving 25 times more power than ...
Electric propulsion is increasingly looking like the technology that will underlie a first attempt to walk on the Red Planet.
NASA fired up a prototype of its electromagnetic thruster inside a vacuum chamber, reaching power levels of up to 120 ...
Inside a long vacuum chamber in Southern California, a spacecraft engine glowed white-hot as it pushed toward a level of ...
NASA’s Boeing 777 has returned to Langley Research Centre in Virginia after undergoing major modifications that have ...
Most Boeing 777s spend their lives shuttling passengers between global hubs. But one specific ...
NASA’s Dragonfly is a flying spacecraft that will be sent to Saturn’s moon Titan and is designed to travel from place to ...