Missions to Mars remain one of the biggest goals for space agencies around the world, but long travel times and huge fuel ...

If we achieve advanced nuclear, antimatter propulsion or other advance propulsion it would be possible to achieve near constant acceleration. This would enable travel times to Mars in the 3-8 day ...

NASA’s new electric propulsion engine set a U.S. power record and could transform future Mars missions. The thrusters use ...

WASHINGTON — The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency awarded Voyager Technologies a $16.5 million contract to continue development of a solid rocket motor thrust-control technology designed to ...

Recently NASA announced earlier this month that the 12 kW Advanced Electric Propulsion System (AEPS) — which is scheduled to form an integral part of the Lunar Gateway when it is launched — has passed ...

Kratos Defense & Security Solutions, Inc. KTOS is accelerating its progress in the defense industry through robust investments and partnerships in advanced propulsion programs. As nations across the ...

Raytheon, a business unit of RTX (NYSE:RTX), has secured a phase two contract from the Defense Advanced Research Projects ...

Aerojet, a GenCorp (NYSE:GY) company, announced today that its high-power Hall Thruster Propulsion System (HTPS) has successfully initiated operation on the Advanced Extremely High Frequency (AEHF) ...

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 ...