2025年1月10日 · Researchers at NASA’s Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia, are working on a system that could help bring nuclear electric propulsion one significant, …

2022年4月19日 · In collaboration with U.S. industry, SSEP has developed a lightweight thruster capable of propelling a small spacecraft from Earth to the Moon, Mars, and beyond – a step up …

2025年1月24日 · Within this effort, NASA is exploring two propulsion systems – nuclear thermal and nuclear electric – each providing unique and complementary capabilities. Nuclear thermal …

2024年4月23日 · Small spacecraft using the NASA-H71M electric propulsion technology will be able to independently maneuver from low-Earth orbit (LEO) to the Moon or even from a …

The NASA Evolutionary Xenon Thruster (NEXT) project at Glenn Research Center is a gridded electrostatic ion thruster about three times as powerful as the NSTAR used on Dawn and …

Aerojet Rocketdyne’s Advanced Electric Propulsion System (AEPS) program will complete development and qualification of a 13kW flight EP system to support NASA exploration. The …

2021年9月20日 · Once the stuff of science fiction, the efficient and quiet power of electric propulsion will provide the force that propels the Psyche spacecraft all the way to the main …

Spacecraft electric propulsion (or just electric propulsion) is a type of spacecraft propulsion technique that uses electrostatic or electromagnetic fields to accelerate mass to high speed …

2021年12月14日 · NASA’s Solar Electric Propulsion (SEP) project is developing critical technologies to extend the length and capabilities of ambitious new science and exploration …

2020年10月22日 · An electric propulsion spacecraft, once it’s in space, is out for a cross-country drive, limited only by the gas in the tank. The initial thrust is quite low, but it can continue …