Deep space exploration might no longer be confined to sci-fi after scientists began testing a rocket thruster which promises ...

This objective is to be achieved through the introduction of numerical and experimental test environments. The focus is on the need to create a basis for the development of maritime tank and ...

For safety reasons, both fuel tanks are separated from the test cell by a two-meter-thick partition wall. In the test cell, the engine is installed on a thrust frame in order to be able to absorb the ...

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The powerhouse of Gateway, NASA's orbiting outpost around the moon and a critical piece of infrastructure for Artemis, is in the midst of several electric propulsion system tests. The Power and ...

The Ion Space Propulsion Lab (ISP Lab) involves next-generation plasma thrusters for spacecraft. The Multiplanetary INnovation Enterprise (MINE) seeks to design, test, and implement robotic ...

And while the tests sound impressive, we found ourselves transfixed by one little visual detail: The tank’s glowing ... of Washington and NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, happened at military ...

The thrusters tested were the fore and aft thrusters and their respective valves. For the J-500 the rear thrusters are ...

An alternative technology to the chemically propelled rockets the agency develops now is called nuclear thermal propulsion, which uses nuclear fission and could one day power a rocket that makes the ...

And yet this is not front-page news. I didn’t really know how close we were to this milestone until I visited the Jet Propulsion Laboratory near Pasadena, Calif., on a hot and dry day in June.

Laurie Leshin, the new boss at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, showed up recently at the Mars Yard, where engineers test rovers by forcing them to navigate their way up and down steep inclines ...