Almost identical to the Pratt & Whitney PW814GA version powering Gulfstream’s G500/600, the PW812D variant is also due to enter service later this year on Dassault’s new Falcon 6X. Credit: Pratt & ...

Matter-antimatter annihilations produce about 10 billion times more energy per unit mass than chemical combustion (which powers most operational spacecraft propulsion systems) and about 300 times more ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: As NASA and DARPA work toward launching their first nuclear thermal rocket (NTR) in 2027, scientists and engineers are already working on innovative ...

NASA has developed an advanced propulsion technology to facilitate future planetary exploration missions using small spacecraft. Not only will this technology enable new types of planetary science ...

Testing has started at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, on a concept for a potentially revolutionary propulsion system that could send spacecraft to the edge of our solar ...

Sending a mission to the solar gravitational lens (SGL) is the most effective way of actually directly imaging a potentially habitable planet, as well as its atmosphere, and even possibly some of its ...

The space industry is gearing up for longer-duration missions to the Moon and beyond, and that requires new types of propulsion systems with higher efficiency and more thrust. That’s why rocket ...