An engineer who once worked with NASA says he has built a machine that can push against gravity without burning a drop of ...

Solar sails have some major advantages over traditional propulsion methods—most notably, they don't use any propellant. But, ...

A French launch startup that recently closed a funding round is seeking defense applications for its hybrid propulsion technology.

There are many wonderful places we’d like to visit in the universe, and probably untold numbers more that we haven’t even seen or heard of yet. Unfortunately…they’re all so darn far away. A ...

Skydweller has been demonstrating its long-duration aircraft for the Navy, giving the service an opportunity to assess how electric and solar-assisted propulsion could support ext ...

Desert Works Propulsion expands U.S. ion propulsion capability through domestic manufacturing partnership and test capacity growth ...

We at CircuitDigest got to visit the facility of this Hyderabad-based manufacturer of electric propulsion solutions and get ...

Nuclear-powered spaceships for fast trips to Mars may now be one step closer to reality. NASA and the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) have teamed up to fund three design concepts for reactors that ...

Technological advancement is opening new doors for hybrid and fully electric vessels. In mid-2020, the U.S. Navy accepted the delivery of the USS Zumwalt, the Navy’s first full-electric power and ...

Electric (plasma) propulsion devices have been used for applications such as station-keeping and orbit transfer, in place of chemical rockets, because they provide a higher specific impulse. Detailed ...