CubeSats are becoming ever more popular, with about 2,400 total launched so far. However, the small size limits their options for fundamental space exploration technologies, including propulsion. They ...

The global rocket propulsion market is entering an unprecedented phase of expansion, with projections indicating it will ...

Russia's state atomic energy corporation, Rosatom, has developed a plasma electric rocket engine that could send spacecraft to Mars in just 30 to 60 days. The plasma engine works by accelerating ...

German Innovation General Trading announced the launch of an expanded development initiative to support the continued development, evaluation, and testing of a patented propulsion architecture for ...

Solna, Sweden — October 2025 — ECAPS AB, Sweden’s leading propulsion technology provider, has announced successful testing of its new Fast-Start Thruster (FAST) technology, a major advancement that ...

Aviation industry experiences major transformations related to innovations in the area of propulsion technologies. As global air traffic continuously grows every year, the manufacturers of aviation ...

A propulsion technology breakthrough has resulted in a new patent for SUNY Oswego’s electrical and computer engineering professor Adrian Ieta’s ionic wind research. In 2018, Ieta and a team of ...

SAN FRANCISCO — Voyager Technologies announced the acquisition Oct. 27 of propulsion-system developer ExoTerra Resource. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. “We’re amplifying our collective mission ...

A consortium of companies just completed its initial foray into an 11-year project that could put the first nuclear-powered space tug into space. The project is called RocketRoll, and it paves the way ...

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