But to travel from low-Earth orbit (LEO) to farther orbits—or even the Moon—requires a different kind of ion thruster capable of achieving escape velocity and orbital capture maneuvers.

After smoke was seen emanating from one of the jet's engines, a runway inspection subsequently recovered a thrust reverser liner. The aircraft, a nine-year-old A321-200, continued its three-hour ...

The distant and cold Voyager 1 spacecraft did a clever thruster trick to help it phone home. Voyager 1, the most distant human object that is now flying through interstellar space, had thruster ...

But the team watched the data stream in, showing the temperature of the thruster heaters rising dramatically, and knew it had worked. “It was such a glorious moment. Team morale was very high ...

Engineers switched again to the trajectory correction thruster set in 2018 when the second set also appeared clogged. But when the team recently checked on the status of Voyager’s trajectory ...

A Hall thruster is a high-efficiency propulsion device using plasma that is used for various difficult space missions, such ...

Starfish had to abandon its plan to regroup and attempt a rendezvous when the Otter Pup satellite’s electric propulsion thruster suffered an anomaly and could no longer function. “We ...

Recently he made an ionic thruster that not only looks amazing in the dark, but also produces a fair amount of thrust. Ionic thrusters are not in the same league as something like a ducted fan or ...

A ground test of the Microwave Electrothermal Thruster (MET) successfully demonstrated on the Vigoride-5 vehicle. Credit: Momentus WASHINGTON — In-space transportation company Momentus announced ...

Imperial College is developing a rocket thruster called the Iridium Catalysed Electrolysis CubeSat Thruster (ICE-Cube Thruster) that is so small that it can only be fabricated using techniques ...

The return to Earth of Boeing's Starliner capsule will be delayed a few more days due to thruster troubleshooting and a scheduled spacewalk. NASA announced today (June 18) that Starliner will ...