A salt used to create a green rocket fuel is known to decompose metals—such as those in metal propellant storage tanks. Recent research at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign found that there ...

Boeing has plans for a space gas station which would allow up to 15 times more payload to be sent to the moon in some missions. The system would allow for two to three times more payload for many ...

Researchers are developing a new type of rocket propellant made of a frozen mixture of water and "nanoscale aluminum" powder that is more environmentally friendly than conventional propellants and ...

Orbit Fab, a startup developing in-space refueling services, plans to work with lunar exploration company ispace on propellant harvesting and delivery. Credit: ispace and Orbit Fab SAN FRANCISCO – ...

A new propulsion system feeds the same "monopropellant" fuel into electrical and chemical thrusters, potentially saving on ...

A team of researchers at MIT has demonstrated a propulsion technology that could dramatically expand the capabilities of ...

For as long as rockets have existed, motion in space has come with a brutal tradeoff. To move forward, you throw mass ...

In a new paper published in the Journal of Propulsion and Power, the researchers show that this propellant can also power tiny electrospray thrusters. The MIT team is working with NASA to launch a ...

In 2015, NASA, for the first time, will fly a space mission utilizing a radically different propellant—one which has reduced toxicity and is environmentally benign. This energetic ionic liquid, or EIL ...

NASA has put out the call for greener propellant fuel for use on the spacecraft of the future. Though it does not appear that NASA has stipulated that alternative propellants must match the ...