A new type of nuclear thermal propulsion reactor fuel has been successfully tested at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center, ...

Cui is exploring ways to improve electric ... to Mars and beyond. However, the plume emitted by the thrusters isn’t just exhaust — it’s the lifeline of the entire propulsion system.

Faster, farther, and more efficiently — that’s the mission driving spacecraft propulsion engineers like Chen Cui, an assistant professor at the University of Virginia’s School of Engineering and ...

Electric propulsion is being increasingly used on space missions and could ultimately replace thrusters using chemical ...

The trip to Mars and back is not one for the faint ... One option NASA is exploring is nuclear electric propulsion, which employs a nuclear reactor to generate electricity that ionizes, or ...

But if we are to expand humankind's firsthand reach into the solar system beyond the Moon, we need new, better, and more effective means of propulsion ... going to head for Mars and elsewhere ...

Hence an electric propulsion system is also referred to as an ion engine. The energy for the electromagnetic fields is often provided by solar arrays, and hence the technology is sometimes ...

The Artemis program has been NASA's best chance to get "boots on the moon" again. But with the new US administration taking ...