L3Harris Technologies said Jan. 5 it will sell a majority stake in its space propulsion business to private equity firm AE ...

NASA’s push for a new nuclear rocket engine is not just another upgrade to the hardware we strap to the bottom of spacecraft.

NASA engineers have successfully tested a new breed of reaction control engine and propulsion system. Aimed at furthering NASA’s space exploration goals, the tests helped investigate the possibility ...

AE Industrial will take a 60 percent stake in the new business focused on civil and commercial space; L3Harris will maintain ...

Melbourne-based L3Harris acquired the vast rocket engine company Aerojet Rocketdyne in 2023, but on Monday announced it was ...

If we achieve advanced nuclear, antimatter propulsion or other advance propulsion it would be possible to achieve near constant acceleration. This would enable travel times to Mars in the 3-8 day ...

Current chemical propulsion systems necessitate prolonged transit times for crewed Mars missions, driving the exploration of Nuclear Thermal Propulsion (NTP) as a more efficient alternative to ...

L3Harris Technologies is nearing a major transaction that underscores its strategic shift toward core national security and missile-focused operations. The defense contractor is close to finalizing a ...

SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Momentus Inc. (NASDAQ: MNTS) ("Momentus" or the "Company"), a U.S. commercial space company that offers transportation and other in-space infrastructure services, ...

This relatively long transit time is a result of the use of traditional chemical rocket fuel. An alternative technology to the chemically propelled rockets the agency develops now is called nuclear ...

Space has a trash problem, with defunct satellites, rockets, and smaller broken bits orbiting the Earth at high speeds. The amount of space junk is only increasing, raising the risk of collision with ...

New propulsion systems reduce shipping emissions through several key mechanisms, contributing to lower fuel consumption, increased energy efficiency, and adoption of cleaner energy sources: Hybrid ...