China is pioneering an innovative electromagnetic launch system, aiming to catapult rockets to supersonic speeds using ...

Here’s What You Need to Remember: The Navy’s Electromagnetic Aircraft Launch System is engineered to be both steady and tailorable, meaning it can adjust to different aircraft weights and ...

A new generation of thrusters has been used to precisely guide and point a satellite in space, paving the way for use of this technology on future spacecraft to save weight, fuel and cut power ...

EMI effects on spacecraft, radar, communications equipment, and radar, among other applications, and how to minimize them. How EMI was handled in a wireless power transfer design. The phenomenon known ...

Pulsar Fusion’s concept of a hyper speed, nuclear fusion rocket engine. Image credit: Pulsar Fusion. Back in 2022, researchers from the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California unveiled 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 ...

As unmanned aerial systems continue to expand into critical roles — including defense, commercial inspection, security ...

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory recently reached a significant achievement in space travel technology. They successfully tested a lithium-fed magnetoplasmadynamic (MPD) thruster, establishing a ...

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 ...

Visit NAP.edu/10766 to get more information about this book, to buy it in print, or to download it as a free PDF. The purpose of this report is to examine propulsion and energy technologies; it does ...