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Desert Works Propulsion expands U.S. ion propulsion capability through domestic manufacturing partnership and test capacity growth

Desert Works Propulsion expands U.S. ion propulsion capability through domestic manufacturing partnership and test capacity growth ...
Morning Overview on MSN

Warp drives could allow time travel and NASA is studying them

Warp drives have long lived in the realm of science fiction, but the underlying physics that inspired them is very real and surprisingly precise. As researchers probe the edges of general relativity ...
Morning Overview on MSN

How nuclear propulsion could get us to Mars in just 3 months

Human crews headed for Mars are still looking at journeys that last most of a year, long enough for radiation, boredom and mechanical risk to pile up. Nuclear propulsion promises to compress that ...
Seeking Alpha

Boeing Starliner missions for NASA scaled back after failed test flight

NASA scaled back its plans for Boeing’s (BA) Starliner capsule, reducing the number of scheduled trips to the International Space Station after last year’s troubled test mission and as the ISS ...
WLOX

NASA’s Artemis program advances with successful RS-25 engine test in Hancock County

HANCOCK COUNTY, Miss. (WLOX) - NASA and L3Harris Technologies successfully conducted a full-duration hot fire test of a second RS-25 engine at Stennis Space Center in Hancock County. The engine will ...
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NASA Tests Space Shuttle Engine That Will Power Moon Mission Five Years in the Future

There has been only one mission of the Artemis program to date, an uncrewed test flight of the Orion spacecraft that was conducted back in 2022. Judging this solely from this perspective, you could be ...
BGR

NASA's X-59 Supersonic Jet Broke The Sound Barrier On Its First Test Flight

The "quiet" supersonic aircraft developed by NASA and Lockheed Martin has completed its first flight in California. Dubbed the X-59 Quiet SuperSonic Technology Aircraft, or Quesst, it is a sleek ...
Flightglobal

GE Aerospace starts run tests of Passport turbofan hybrid-electric system under NASA programme

GE Aerospace recently started test running the Passport-turbofan-based hybrid-electric propulsion system it developed under NASA’s Hybrid Thermally Efficient Core (HyTEC) programme, one of several ...
The Hill

NASA tests low-volume supersonic jet that could slash air travel time

NASA and Lockheed Martin debuted their first test run of a low-volume supersonic jet that’s expected to allow air passengers to travel faster than the speed of sound. The X-59 aircraft soared Tuesday ...
New York Post

NASA’s silent X-59 jet can break sound barrier with almost no noise, take passengers from NYC to London in 3½ hours

NASA’s sleek and quiet supersonic jet — which is built to reach speeds of up to 925 mph without producing a loud sonic boom— soared across the California desert in its first test flight on Tuesday, ...
Digital Trends

Watch Blue Origin test fire its rocket engines ahead of NASA’s Mars launch

Blue Origin has test fired its New Glenn rocket engine as it makes final preparations for the launch of NASA’s ESCAPADE mission involving twin Mars orbiters. The static test fire of the heavy-lift ...
Seeking Alpha

NASA's quiet supersonic jet completes first test flight

The X-59 quiet supersonic jet, built for NASA by Lockheed Martin (NYSE:LMT), successfully completed its first test flight in California on Tuesday, paving the way for faster commercial air travel. The ...