A laboratory prototype of a plasma electric rocket engine based on a magnetic plasma accelerator has been produced by Rosatom ...

China's state-owned main space contractor tested five different rocket engines on one day last week in preparation for future missions and projects. The China Aerospace Science and Technology ...

Electric propulsion is being increasingly used on space missions and could ultimately replace thrusters using chemical ...

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At 2:03 a.m. Eastern time, seven powerful engines ignited at the base of a 320-foot-tall rocket named New Glenn. The flames illuminated night into day at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida.

REUTERS The rocket had planned to land a first-stage booster on the Jacklyn ship offshore in the Atlantic Ocean for future reuse ... rockets and reusable engines.” The methane-burning engines ...

Since then all the advances have been in making rockets larger and more efficient through innovations peripheral to the rocket engine itself ... requirements for future cislunar and Mars mission ...

And each hints at the framework they use to picture humanity’s future in outer space ... delays with development of the rocket’s engine, the BE-4, and other setbacks shifted the schedule ...

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