Aerojet Rocketdyne, a GenCorp (GY) company, announced today that its propulsion systems successfully contributed to an intercept of a ballistic missile target with the second generation Aegis BMD ...
Phase Four, Inc. (“Phase Four”), the creator of the radio-frequency thruster for satellite propulsion, announced today its highly anticipated Maxwell Block 3 turn-key plasma propulsion thruster. The ...
South Korea is moving from licensed fighter engines to a fully indigenous powerplant, committing $3.4 billion to a new 16,000lb-thrust engine tailored for the KF-21 program. The decision signals that ...
A design that led to rapid development for the present concept is the Custer Channel Wing, a largely forgotten attempt to create ultra-short takeoff and landing (USTOL) airplanes nearly a century ago, ...
NASA plans to send crewed missions to Mars over the next decade – but the 140 million-mile (225 million-kilometer) journey to the red planet could take several months to years round trip. This ...
As a great challenge facing the world, deep space exploration can be enabled only in a few countries with a success rate of around 50%. With the advancement of spacecraft and scientific instruments, ...
Electrohydrodynamic propulsion systems utilise the interaction between high electric fields and fluid media to generate thrust without traditional moving parts. By applying a high voltage to ...
In Star Wars, the spacecraft of the galaxy far, far away are propelled through space by massive engines glowing bright blue. Current spacecraft may pale in comparison, but the technology that powers ...