The NASA planned 2028 nuclear powered ion drive spacecraft, SR-1 Freedom will have a 20 kilowatt nuclear reactor. SR-1 ...
Click to open image viewer. This is a cesium ion engine developed by the Electro-Optical Systems, Inc. as an experimental high-energy thruster for spacecraft. Ion engines produce extremely low thrusts ...
Over 14,000 pieces of junk are clogging up low Earth orbit, but this number could be reduced by a new invention that involves a satellite using the plasma exhaust of its ion engine to knock dangerous ...
Space debris is a growing threat to satellites and missions, with over 14,000 pieces already cluttering low-Earth orbit. To address this, Kazunori Takahashi, a researcher at Tohoku University in Japan ...
Science fiction technologies and worlds in the Star Wars universe have become science fact in NASA's hunt for planets beyond our own solar system and engines to power spacecraft on long duration ...
Nano-heat engine likely to operate at high efficiency / Publication in Physical Review Letters Scientists at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU) and the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg are ...