The U.S. Missile Defense Agency (MDA) is developing tiny spacecraft that could be used to demonstrate new satellite propulsion systems and help calibrate missile tracking sensors near the end of this ...

There are two propulsion experiments on the Rogue Systems OTP2 satellite. The nanosats database has descriptions of the systems. The current satellite movement is the other propulsion system. I only ...

Air Force Research Laboratory’s (AFRL/PR) Propulsion Directorate develops next generation rocket propulsion technologies to maintain DoD air and space superiority as well as act as an executing agent ...

Back in September, a Northrop Grumman Cygnus XL spacecraft headed to the International Space Station (ISS) with crucial supplies and exciting experiments on board. On the manifest was something called ...

Joseph Agnew, undergrad and research assistant from the University of Alabama in Huntsville’s Propulsion Research Center (PRC), presented the results of his study “An Examination of Warp Theory and ...

Click to open image viewer. American rocket pioneer Robert Goddard (1882-1945) used this device between 1924 and 1928 in his experiments to determine the feasibility of ion propulsion for space travel ...