A one-way trip to the Mars usually takes about 9 months, but one team out of Russia thinks they can knock that down to 30 ...

The large satellite propulsion system market is a key player in space technology, integrating chemical, electric, cold-gas, and hybrid thrusters crucial for satellite maneuvers. Driven by the demand ...

Engineers at NASA have successfully fired up a set of thrusters Voyager 1 hasn’t used in decades to solve an issue that could keep the 47-year-old spacecraft from communicating with Earth from ...

Engineers at NASA say they have successfully revived thrusters aboard Voyager 1, the farthest spacecraft from our planet, in the nick of time before a planned communications blackout. A side effect of ...

Voyager 1 just fired up a set of thrusters that have been dormant for 37 years. The aging spacecraft, first launched in 1977, is the fastest and most well-traveled spacecraft ever launched by NASA. It ...

Kongsberg Maritime is celebrating the tenth anniversary of its innovative rim drive azimuth thruster and has now booked ...

A satellite company named Maxar recently delivered a passenger-van-sized chunk of spacecraft to NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California. This chassis will serve as the backbone for a robotic ...

Most of us will have spent the idle hours of our youth while sitting in a room where a teacher was standing at the blackboard explaining iambic pentameter or the Diet of Wurms, daydreaming about the ...

If you have been on the internet, you surely have seen this website showing the sizes of different starships. Way cool. Here is a small sample - but it doesn't do the site justice. You really need to ...

This article was updated on Aug. 26, 2020, with information on the thruster patent. LOGAN, Utah – The University Würzburg announced at the Small Satellite Conference that onboard electric thrusters ...

After almost four decades of dormancy, NASA has successfully ordered the Voyager 1 deep space probe to fire a set of thrusters that have been inactive for 37 years. The November 28 test was carried ...

It’s a good idea to have a backup plan, especially in interstellar space. NASA scientists needed to reorient the 40-year-old Voyager 1 – the space agency’s farthest spacecraft – so its antenna would ...