NASA engineers have successfully tested a new breed of reaction control engine and propulsion system. Aimed at furthering NASA’s space exploration goals, the tests helped investigate the possibility ...

General Atomics and NASA have successfully tested a new type of nuclear thermal propulsion reactor fuel at the NASA Marshall Space Flight Center in Alabama. The new fuel could help power propulsion ...

L3Harris Technologies is selling a 60% stake in its space propulsion business to AE Industrial Partners for $845 million, retaining 40% ownership.

Russia is testing a plasma engine prototype designed to slash Mars travel time to just 60 days. Developed by Rosatom’s ...

American researchers are finally getting a real-time view inside one of the most unforgiving propulsion systems in service, ...

It seems too good to be true, but UK-based Pulsar Fusion has revealed its new Sunbird self-contained nuclear rocket tug that uses a fusion propulsion engine that could reduce a trip to Mars to under ...

Key market opportunities in the aerospace and defense propulsion system sector include advancements in electric and hybrid ...

Aerojet, a GenCorp (NYSE:GY) company, successfully completed 250 hot-fire test sequences of its legendary R-4D 100-pound-thrust bipropellant engine. The test included over 20,000 starts under a broad ...

Space has a trash problem, with defunct satellites, rockets, and smaller broken bits orbiting the Earth at high speeds. The amount of space junk is only increasing, raising the risk of collision with ...

The 2025 Wards 10 Best Engines & Propulsion Systems list is out, and nine of the 10 winners are either hybrid engines or all-electric powertrains. The one purely ICE engine on this year’s list is none ...