COLORADO SPRINGS—Rocket Lab on April 14 added a high-performance, Hall-effect satellite thruster to its growing catalog of space technologies and flight services. The company has established a ...

Florida deputies rushed to save the lives of nearly a dozen people who were tossed into the water off the Fort Myers coast when their pontoon boat overturned, and the dramatic rescue was caught on ...

Modern cruise ships are engineered to maneuver themselves into tight ports without relying on expensive tugboats, using a clever combination of bow thrusters, twin propellers, and independent rudders.

People in North America adopted the bow and arrow as replacement weapons for the dart and atlatl about 1,400 years ago, according to a new paper published in the journal PNAS Nexus. But the adoption ...

Last month, Hydrex carried out an underwater bow thruster operation on a ferry in Stockholm, in the middle of winter. The operation was scheduled to take place during a planned break in the ferry’s ...

I simply hate the way space exploration takes me from exultation to despair in a heartbeat, by continuously announcing magnificent programs, plans, and hardware, and continuously hitting roadblocks ...

The bow of the future USS District of Columbia (SSBN-826) left Newport News Shipbuilding this week and is en route to General Dynamics Electric Boat, where the submarine will be assembled and tested, ...

British electric drive specialist Helix builds some of the most power-dense electric motors in the world. Now it's working to springboard that compact, power-packed design into a marine drive ...

Blame it on return-to-office policies or fashion’s current romance with the ’80s, but pussy bows—one of the most controversial (and, it must be said, chicest) design flourishes in recent memory—are ...

An earlier version of Cygnus approaches the ISS. The service module, with the main thruster, is as the top of the spacecraft. Credit: NASA PARIS — NASA is delaying the arrival of a Cygnus spacecraft ...