These designs optimise a thruster’s ability to handle heat while also better controlling the flow of propellant ... inserts for in-space water thrusters while achieving losses of less than 1%. This is ...

"We're trying to encounter an astronomical object that streaks through our solar system just once and we don’t want to miss the opportunity." In 2017, scientists spotted our solar system's first ...

Satellites and other spacecraft ... in the interstellar medium? How are these molecules transformed into the substances we eventually observe on Earth? What signatures can we use to identify ...

By using older, “heritage” designs and fuels, companies can insert multimode propellant and engines into spacecraft faster, fulfilling the pressing need for it currently. But the challenges ...

Could cat-like agility and lightning-fast reflexes have influenced the development of next-gen space suits? We dive into the ...

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SAN FRANCISCO – Miles Space has demonstrated a water-fueled electric thruster with ... net to understand my responses. Then, it would use that trained neural net to run simulations when I ...

The goal is to use ground-based lasers to power hundreds of meter-scale lightsails carrying microchip-sized spacecraft. This new lightsail design could be scaled up to meter scale fairly easily, the ...