At the core of NASA’s Artemis mission is Gateway, a lunar outpost that demands advanced power and propulsion. Aviation Week spoke with Chris Coker about how the company’s commercial spacecraft ...
Spanish propulsion startup Kreios Space announced August 4, 2026, that it has contracted Kongsberg NanoAvionics to build the satellite bus for what will be the world's first commercial flight ...
Impulse Space detailed the company’s first electric propulsion system called Electra, built to support long-duration operations in space. This comes after a year ago, Impulse said it was exploring ...
Jun Asakawa, Pale Blue co-founder and CEO, at the Japanese water propulsion startup’s Small Satellite Conference booth in Salt Lake City Credit: Pale Blue TAMPA, Fla. — Japanese water propulsion ...
With more than 200 propulsion systems in space and an accumulated on-orbit time of over 400 years Field Emission Electric Propulsion (FEEP) technology has become one of the most mature and robust ...
NASA’s Office of Space Science has issued a research announcement asking academic and industry researchers to propose in-space propulsion technology innovations — ideas that could revolutionize ...
ONERA, ThrustMe, and Airbus Defence & Space have initiated the IPISC project (Iodine Propulsion Interaction with Satellites and Components), supported by ESA and CNES. This project aims to evaluate ...
Photo. (From left) PhD candidate Youngho Kim, Professor Wonho Choe, and PhD candidate Jaehong Park from the Department of Nuclear and Quantum Engineering standing in front of the 5 kW-class Hall ...
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NASA targets 2028 Mars flight for first interplanetary reactor propulsion test
NASA wants to activate a working uranium-fission reactor aboard an uncrewed spacecraft heading toward Mars in late 2028. But Space Reactor-1 Freedom, or SR-1, does not yet have a booked launch, a ...
Forward-looking: Scientists have long envisioned nuclear electric propulsion as a transformative technology for unlocking the potential of solar system exploration. Now, two companies making steady ...
The trip to Mars and back is not one for the faint of heart. We're not talking days, weeks, or months. But there are technologies that could help transport a crew on that round-trip journey in a ...
A consortium led by Belgian engineering firm Tractebel has completed the European Space Agency-commissioned RocketRoll project on nuclear electric propulsion for space exploration. The consortium has ...
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