Na Hiro E Pae is a special ship, purposely built to incorporate a series of features for sustainable, green transportation between Tahiti and the remote Austral Islands. One of them is bound4blue’s ...

These four flight unit electrospray thrusters were delivered by MIT Space Propulsion Laboratory to NASA for the upcoming Green Propulsion Dual Mode (GPDM) mission. Cambridge, Mass. -- MIT engineers ...

A team of researchers at MIT has demonstrated a propulsion technology that could dramatically expand the capabilities of small satellites, potentially allowing compact spacecraft to travel to ...

The space industry is gearing up for longer-duration missions to the Moon and beyond, and that requires new types of propulsion systems with higher efficiency and more thrust. That’s why rocket ...

NASA engineers recently tested a next-generation electric propulsion system that could one day power a crewed mission to Mars. NASA fired up a prototype of its electromagnetic thruster inside a vacuum ...

Sending a mission to the solar gravitational lens (SGL) is the most effective way of actually directly imaging a potentially habitable planet, as well as its atmosphere, and even possibly some of its ...

MIT engineers are testing a new propulsion system that combines the power and speed of conventional chemical thrusters with the precision and fuel-efficiency of electrical thrusters. The system could ...