Rubicon’s ASCENT chemical propulsion module, called Sprite, is being paired with Massachusetts Institute of Technology ...

NASA selected the McDonnell Aircraft Corporation to develop the Mercury spacecraft, which would later carry the first ...

demonstrating thrust comparable to conventional jet engines. Tang’s approach differs from other plasma propulsion systems, such as those used by NASA. For example, NASA’s xenon-based plasma ...

On Jan. 9, 1959, NASA selected the McDonnell Aircraft Corporation to develop the Mercury spacecraft ... of a 1.5-million-pound thrust rocket engine to power a future large space booster.

Researchers used supercomputer simulations to unlock the secrets of electrons in plasma beams ejected by electric propulsion ...