NASA mission controllers raced against time to find a solution before a crucial ground-based radio used for communicating ...

Chemical rocket engines provide huge ... NASA was more than willing to point out the low thrust available from the propulsion system, noting that 0-60 mph would take four days, which compares ...

"On April 1, the spacecraft detected a pressure drop in the line that feeds the xenon gas to the thrusters, going from 36 pounds per square inch (psi) to about 26 psi," NASA said in the recent ...

In the nick of time, NASA teams addressed clogging issues in the probe’s backup roll thrusters, before the only antenna ...

and use ionized xenon for propulsion. These kind of thrusters aren’t powerful like the chemical propulsion systems used by rockets to escape Earth’s atmosphere, for example, but are instead ...

Voyager 1 and 2 are NASA’s iconic deep space explorers, launched in 1977 to study the outer planets—Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, ...

A team of scientists from the Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand, aims to reduce the space industry’s reliance on ...

NASA engineers have miraculously revived the Voyager 1 interstellar probe's backup thrusters — components that hadn't been ...

Nor is using chemical propulsion a practical way ... Unlike other seemingly sci-f tech, like ion thrusters, these laser propulsion methods are still quite a ways off being fielded in real space ...

Engineers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California have revived a set of thrusters aboard the Voyager 1 spacecraft that had been considered inoperable since 2004. Fixing the ...

There are two propulsion experiments on the Rogue Systems OTP2 satellite ... then it could be some weeks before they can reset and rest the quantum drive. The thrust expected for the IVO Quantum drive ...