For nearly a month, NASA has been scrambling to make contact with a spacecraft in orbit around Mars that abruptly fell silent. The space agency lost communication with the MAVEN probe (short for Mars ...
A researcher says he found a possible shortcut to Mars that would halve the time it takes to travel to the planet and back to ...
For years, nuclear propulsion sat in the same category as so many ambitious space ideas, impressive on paper, always a few ...
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A prototype ion engine that uses lithium vapor as a propellant has aced its first tests, achieving 25 times more power than ...
A powerful new electromagnetic thruster has taken a major step forward after a successful high-energy test at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Fueled by lithium vapor and driven by intense magnetic ...
The Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution (MAVEN) was first launched in November 2013 NASA/GSFC NASA announced that the agency lost contact with the Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution (MAVEN) ...
Earlier this year, rocket scientists at NASA fired up an electromagnetic thruster powered by lithium metal vapor.