Every year, companies and space agencies launch hundreds of rockets into space—and that number is set to grow dramatically with ambitious missions to the moon, Mars and beyond. But these dreams hinge ...

Portal Systems' new Supernova satellite will use sunlight and a special 3D printed thruster to heat ammonia to propel itself ...

SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Momentus Inc. (NASDAQ: MNTS) ("Momentus" or the "Company"), a U.S. commercial space company that offers transportation and other in-space infrastructure services, ...

Portal Space Systems and its CEO, Jeff Thornburg, aim to commercialize a decades-old spaceflight concept called solar thermal ...

If we achieve advanced nuclear, antimatter propulsion or other advance propulsion it would be possible to achieve near constant acceleration. This would enable travel times to Mars in the 3-8 day ...

Nuclear rockets are the future of space propulsion, and while fission propulsion is rapidly developing, most believe fusion propulsion is still a ways off. However, a new U.K.-based company is ...

Could a single spacecraft’s propulsion system flaws reshape NASA’s crew transport strategy for the rest of the decade? That’s ...

It seems too good to be true, but UK-based Pulsar Fusion has revealed its new Sunbird self-contained nuclear rocket tug that uses a fusion propulsion engine that could reduce a trip to Mars to under ...

With the Artemis Moon exploration program that'll bring humans back to the satellite surface now its way, NASA is planning to play seriously this time. It will not go there just to visit, but to stay ...

Space is becoming more crowded and as the number of satellites increases, so too does the risk of a collision, highlighting the need for multimode propulsion in spacecraft, according to industry ...

A handful of Senate Republicans are wrestling with the impending expiration of health insurance subsidies that are the primary sticking point in the government shutdown standoff that entered its 13th ...

When most people think of space innovation, they imagine rockets launching into the heavens from Florida and Texas. They rarely think about the critical, but less visible, work that makes those ...