The U.S. Navy brass seems to be watching a bit too much Star Trek because the military branch recently filed some mind-blowing patents for things like a compact fusion reactor strong enough to power ...
Space missions already use electric propulsion devices, where electromagnetic fields are utilized to generate the thrust of spacecraft. One such electrodeless device, which harnesses radio frequency ...
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US Army teams up with Auriga Space to build electromagnetic counter-drone tech
The drone war is costing too much. Military forces are using expensive missiles to ...
Pulsar Fusion’s concept of a hyper speed, nuclear fusion rocket engine. Image credit: Pulsar Fusion. Back in 2022, researchers from the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California unveiled a ...
NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory recently reached a significant achievement in space travel technology. They successfully tested a lithium-fed magnetoplasmadynamic (MPD) thruster, establishing a ...
Auriga Space and the U.S. Army Combat Capabilities Development Command Armaments Center (DEVCOM AC) have signed a three-year Cooperative Research and Development Agreement (CRADA) to advance ...
Within the next 15 years, NASA, China, and SpaceX plan to send the first crewed missions to Mars. In all three cases, these missions are meant to culminate in the creation of surface habitats that ...
The magnetic nozzle rf plasma thruster operated in a Mega hpt vacuum chamber at Tohoku University CREDIT Kazunori Takahashi A Tohoku University researcher has increased the performance of a high-power ...
A Tohoku University researcher has increased the performance of a high-power electrodeless plasma thruster, moving us one step closer to deeper explorations into space. Innovations in terrestrial ...
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