BepiColombo Mercury arrival entered its critical phase September 3 as ESA's Mercury Transfer Module separated from the two science orbiters, ending eight years of ion propulsion after a 2024 power ...

The BepiColombo Mercury probe is a joint mission between the European Space Agency (ESA) and Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA). The probe is intended to study Mercury's magnetic field, ...

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 ...

Pale Blue Inc. (Pale Blue) will demonstrate the world-first, 1U+, Water Ion Thruster (PBI) on D-Orbit’s ION Satellite Carrier twice during 2025. By adding space heritage multiple times, Pale Blue will ...

Dr Charles Buhler has been the lead NASA scientist on Electrostatics. An experiment last month was sent to the moon and showed success against a decades long problem of lunar dust. Buhler believes his ...

Univity tested its first payload on the rooftop of a CNES facility in France as part of early 5G satellite experiments. Credit: ©CNES/Adrien RIBET, 2025 TAMPA, Fla. — France-based propulsion startup ...

Pale Blue plans to demonstrate its 1U water ion thruster twice in 2025 on D-Orbit’s Ion Satellite Carrier, an orbital transfer vehicle. The contract with D-Orbit includes two launch opportunities and ...

Predicting the lifetime of an electric ion thruster is notoriously difficult. You have to account for the chamber wall affects which are not present in space environments. Researchers within several ...