Reaching the nearest star system, Alpha Centauri, would take hundreds of thousands of years using current rocket propulsion ...

Rocket Lab (NasdaqCM:RKLB) has introduced its Gauss high volume electric satellite thruster. The company is setting up production capacity for more than 200 Gauss thrusters per year. The new thruster ...

Rocket Lab has entered the electric propulsion market with Gauss, a Hall-effect thruster built for the satellites that fly in ...

Rocket Lab Corporation (Nasdaq: RKLB) (“Rocket Lab” or the “Company”), a global leader in launch services and space systems, today introduced a new electric satellite thruster designed for high-volume ...

Rocket Lab CEO Peter Beck positioned Rocket Lab as a diversified space infrastructure provider rather than a pure launch competitor. ・He said the company is expanding across launch, satellite systems, ...

A U.K. space tech company has revealed a secret project that could change how humans travel between planets. After ten years of quiet research, Pulsar Fusion has unveiled a nuclear fusion-powered ...

Space propulsion company Pulsar Fusion has achieved “first plasma” in its Sunbird nuclear fusion rocket, designed to propel rockets faster than any object has ever traveled. Reading time 2 minutes ...

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 ...

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RESTON, Va., March 16, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) released “AIAA Collection: A Century of Rocketry”, a special compilation of 100 technical ...

The rocket, a reaction-propulsion device that carries all of its propellants internally, has been around for almost a millennium since its invention in China. But the twentieth-century saw a ...