Space travel has always hit a wall with slow speeds and massive fuel needs. Gravitic propulsion systems offer a game-changing ...

ISRO completed two hot tests of the Gaganyaan propulsion system on July 3, 2025. These tests are a big step toward India’s ...

ISRO has completed two successful hot tests of the Gaganyaan Service Module Propulsion System (SMPS) at Mahendragiri.

NASA’s Psyche spacecraft has officially resumed full-time propulsion following a temporary suspension earlier this year. According to a report from NASA Science, engineers successfully restored the ...

Sedna will make its closest approach to the Sun in 2076, giving us a rare opportunity to visit the planetoid before it drifts ...

Electric propulsion is a more efficient alternative to traditional chemical rockets, and it's being increasingly used on space missions, starting off with prototypes on NASA's Deep Space 1 and the ...

Spacecraft propulsion is used to change the velocity of spacecraft and artificial satellites, or in short, to provide delta-v. There are many different methods. Each method has drawbacks and ...

Related: Superfast spacecraft propulsion systems (images) Side view of a flight model of the NPT30-I2 iodine electric propulsion system firing in a vacuum chamber. (Image credit: ThrustMe) ...

Alternatives for in-space propulsion are being pursued, like Accion’s electrospray panels, Hall effect thrusters (on SpaceX’s Starlink satellites) and light sails — but ultimately, chemical ...

This week an in-space propulsion company, Impulse Space, announced that it had raised a significant amount of money, $300 million. This follows a fundraising round just last year in which the ...

ISRO validates Gaganyaan SMPS through successful hot tests, demonstrating propulsion system performance for upcoming crewed ...