A team of researchers at NASA has discovered a previously unknown material capable of withstanding the extreme heat and ...

NASA’s new electric propulsion engine set a U.S. power record and could transform future Mars missions. The thrusters use ...

(Reuters) -NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory said on Monday it will cut nearly 550 jobs as part of a restructuring, not related to the current U.S. government shutdown. JPL is NASA's only federally ...

A prototype ion engine that uses lithium vapor as a propellant has aced its first tests, achieving 25 times more power than previous ion engines.

NASA just nudged its Mars ambitions forward with a lab test of a new ion engine that vastly outmuscles anything it's flown before. The lithium-fed magnetoplasmadynamic (MPD) thruster hit 120 kilowatts ...

NASA is working on a lithium-plasma electric thruster that uses roughly 90% less fuel than chemical rockets. Can this new ...

In a brief statement, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory's (JPL) Director Dave Gallagher announced that the organization is letting go of around 550 employees at its La Cañada Flintridge facility in ...

A couple of weeks ago, ground teams at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida removed one of the four main engines from the Space Launch System rocket slated to send four astronauts on a voyage around ...

"This test confirmed that all components — software, mechanical linkages, and control laws — work together as intended." When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory will lay off about 550 workers, the California research lab said, in a restructuring move that its director told employees was not related to the ongoing government ...

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