Tethers Unlimited Inc. says it’s won $2.2 million in contracts from NASA and Millennium Space Systems to provide its miniaturized, water-fueled Hydros thrusters for satellite missions. The company, ...

Scientists at the European Space Agency have created a miniaturized ion thruster that’s capable of keeping a satellite steady while in Earth’s orbit. Liquid metal forming on a tiny spiked crown made ...

Mini- thrusters or miniature, electric propulsion systems are being developed, which could make it easier for the Air Force's small satellites, including the latest CubeSats, to perform space ...

An early-stage space project suggests that future thrusters may be able to use water as propellant. Finding a way to do so would be particularly advantageous for space exploration, since water ...

Satellites orbiting the Earth must occasionally be nudged to stay on the correct path. Scientists are developing a new rocket that could make this and other spacecraft maneuvers much less costly, a ...

LYON, France–Exotrail has conducted an in-orbit demonstration of its miniaturized electric thruster, paving the way for the propulsion of nanosatellites. A cubesat mission launched last November on ...

Designed to manoeuvre the smallest classes of satellite, the operation of this Iridium Catalysed Electrolysis CubeSat Thruster (ICE-Cube Thruster) developed with Imperial College in the UK is based on ...

CubeSats, low-cost, bite-sized satellites inspired by the tubes used to hold Beanie Babies, were invented in 1999 as educational tools. Their creators — engineering professors Bob Twiggs and Jordi ...

Scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have created a penny-sized rocket thruster to power miniaturized space satellites, the university announced. Small satellites collecting data ...

CAMBRIDGE, Mass., March 4 (UPI) -- U.S. scientists say they're developing mini-thrusters that could propel small satellites for such tasks as searching for planets beyond our solar system. The U.S.

NATICK, MA, JULY 31, 2017 – Space propulsion firm Busek Co. Inc. confirms its ‘BIT-3’ ion thruster system completed two separate Critical Design Reviews (CDR) for upcoming CubeSat spaceflight programs ...