Chinese Startup Fires ‘Blazing’ Oxygen-Rich Engine for Deep Space Missions
The space industry is gearing up for longer-duration missions to the Moon and beyond, and that requires new…
NASA’s Lithium-Fed Nuclear Thruster Flares to Life in First of Its Kind Test
NASA engineers recently tested a next-generation electric propulsion system that could one day power a crewed mission to…
Wild Experiment Suggests Lasers and Graphene Could Propel Future Spacecraft
An experiment on board a parabolic flight showed promising results suggesting that graphene, a thin sheet of carbon…