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  1. Say good bye to cryogenic chilled propellant in your rocket!

    Rocket Boffins@ NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory recently fired up a magnetoplasmadynamic (MPD) thruster (aka "electric thruster") that runs on lithium metal vapor.

    This prototype achieved power levels (120 kilowatts) beyond the highest-power electric thrusters on any of the agency’s current spacecraft.

    Fully developed and paired with a nuclear power source, they could support payloads required for human Mars missions. jpl.nasa.gov/news/nasa-fires-u #NASA #JPL #Princeton #ElectricPropulsion #Rockets #Space #Mars #Lithium #Thruster #RocketThruster #electromagnetic #magnetoplasmadynamic

  2. Say good bye to cryogenic chilled propellant in your rocket!

    Rocket Boffins@ NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory recently fired up a magnetoplasmadynamic (MPD) thruster (aka "electric thruster") that runs on lithium metal vapor.

    This prototype achieved power levels (120 kilowatts) beyond the highest-power electric thrusters on any of the agency’s current spacecraft.

    Fully developed and paired with a nuclear power source, they could support payloads required for human Mars missions. jpl.nasa.gov/news/nasa-fires-u #NASA #JPL #Princeton #ElectricPropulsion #Rockets #Space #Mars #Lithium #Thruster #RocketThruster #electromagnetic #magnetoplasmadynamic

  3. Say good bye to cryogenic chilled propellant in your rocket!

    Rocket Boffins@ NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory recently fired up a magnetoplasmadynamic (MPD) thruster (aka "electric thruster") that runs on lithium metal vapor.

    This prototype achieved power levels (120 kilowatts) beyond the highest-power electric thrusters on any of the agency’s current spacecraft.

    Fully developed and paired with a nuclear power source, they could support payloads required for human Mars missions. jpl.nasa.gov/news/nasa-fires-u #NASA #JPL #Princeton #ElectricPropulsion #Rockets #Space #Mars #Lithium #Thruster #RocketThruster #electromagnetic #magnetoplasmadynamic

  4. Say good bye to cryogenic chilled propellant in your rocket!

    Rocket Boffins@ NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory recently fired up a magnetoplasmadynamic (MPD) thruster (aka "electric thruster") that runs on lithium metal vapor.

    This prototype achieved power levels (120 kilowatts) beyond the highest-power electric thrusters on any of the agency’s current spacecraft.

    Fully developed and paired with a nuclear power source, they could support payloads required for human Mars missions. jpl.nasa.gov/news/nasa-fires-u #NASA #JPL #Princeton #ElectricPropulsion #Rockets #Space #Mars #Lithium #Thruster #RocketThruster #electromagnetic #magnetoplasmadynamic

  5. Say good bye to cryogenic chilled propellant in your rocket!

    Rocket Boffins@ NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory recently fired up a magnetoplasmadynamic (MPD) thruster (aka "electric thruster") that runs on lithium metal vapor.

    This prototype achieved power levels (120 kilowatts) beyond the highest-power electric thrusters on any of the agency’s current spacecraft.

    Fully developed and paired with a nuclear power source, they could support payloads required for human Mars missions. jpl.nasa.gov/news/nasa-fires-u

  6. Rubicon ASCENT thruster moves from hot-fire testing to production
    atlas.whatip.xyz/post.php?slug
    <p>SAN FRANCISCO – Rubicon Space Systems completed hot-fire testing of its Velox 5-newton ASCENT
    #production #thruster #rubicon #testing

  7. #space #thruster #engine

    Ahem.. this is a brilliant bit of new tech, but I'm a physicist so I gotta point out: It's acceleration without i/propellant/i, not without fuel: The electricity still comes from somewhere - and even solar power uses fuel - fuel in the Sun.

    space.com/technology/accelerat

  8. #space #thruster #engine

    Ahem.. this is a brilliant bit of new tech, but I'm a physicist so I gotta point out: It's acceleration without i/propellant/i, not without fuel: The electricity still comes from somewhere - and even solar power uses fuel - fuel in the Sun.

    space.com/technology/accelerat

  9. #space #thruster #engine

    Ahem.. this is a brilliant bit of new tech, but I'm a physicist so I gotta point out: It's acceleration without i/propellant/i, not without fuel: The electricity still comes from somewhere - and even solar power uses fuel - fuel in the Sun.

    space.com/technology/accelerat

  10. #space #thruster #engine

    Ahem.. this is a brilliant bit of new tech, but I'm a physicist so I gotta point out: It's acceleration without i/propellant/i, not without fuel: The electricity still comes from somewhere - and even solar power uses fuel - fuel in the Sun.

    space.com/technology/accelerat

  11. #space #thruster #engine

    Ahem.. this is a brilliant bit of new tech, but I'm a physicist so I gotta point out: It's acceleration without i/propellant/i, not without fuel: The electricity still comes from somewhere - and even solar power uses fuel - fuel in the Sun.

    space.com/technology/accelerat

  12. 'Acceleration without fuel:' Revolutionary superconducting thruster harnesses Earth's magnetic field in 1st orbital test
    atlas.whatip.xyz/post.php?slug
    <p>A novel space thruster using superconducting magnets completed its first orbital tests
    #superconducting #revolutionary #acceleration #thruster

  13. NASA Fires Up Powerful Lithium-Fed Thruster for Trips to Mars
    atlas.whatip.xyz/post.php?slug
    <p>A technology that could propel crewed missions to Mars and robotic spacecraft throughout the solar
    #powerful #thruster #lithium #fires

  14. NASA Fires Up Powerful Lithium-Fed Thruster for Trips to Mars
    atlas.whatip.xyz/post.php?slug
    <p>A technology that could propel crewed missions to Mars and robotic spacecraft throughout the solar
    #powerful #thruster #lithium #fires

  15. Beyond Gravity to supply robotic arms for Swissto12 small GEO satellites

    TAMPA, Fla. — Beyond Gravity has secured a contract to deliver robotic arm thruster pointing mechanisms for the…
    #NewsBeep #News #US #USA #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #Space #beyondgravity #Europe #Science #SN #Swissto12 #Thruster
    newsbeep.com/us/184190/

  16. Beyond Gravity to supply robotic arms for Swissto12 small GEO satellites

    TAMPA, Fla. — Beyond Gravity has secured a contract to deliver robotic arm thruster pointing mechanisms for the…
    #NewsBeep #News #US #USA #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #Space #beyondgravity #Europe #Science #SN #Swissto12 #Thruster
    newsbeep.com/us/184190/

  17. 🚀💾 Oh, look! NASA's busy performing #CPR on a 46-year-old #space #fossil with a "Hail Mary" #thruster trick. Meanwhile, #The Register's website is busy playing #robot #bouncer, blocking your desperate attempts to read about it. 🤖🚫
    theregister.com/2025/05/15/voy #NASA #Hail #Mary #Register #HackerNews #ngated

  18. 🚀💾 Oh, look! NASA's busy performing #CPR on a 46-year-old #space #fossil with a "Hail Mary" #thruster trick. Meanwhile, #The Register's website is busy playing #robot #bouncer, blocking your desperate attempts to read about it. 🤖🚫
    theregister.com/2025/05/15/voy #NASA #Hail #Mary #Register #HackerNews #ngated

  19. 🚀💾 Oh, look! NASA's busy performing #CPR on a 46-year-old #space #fossil with a "Hail Mary" #thruster trick. Meanwhile, #The Register's website is busy playing #robot #bouncer, blocking your desperate attempts to read about it. 🤖🚫
    theregister.com/2025/05/15/voy #NASA #Hail #Mary #Register #HackerNews #ngated

  20. 🚀💾 Oh, look! NASA's busy performing #CPR on a 46-year-old #space #fossil with a "Hail Mary" #thruster trick. Meanwhile, #The Register's website is busy playing #robot #bouncer, blocking your desperate attempts to read about it. 🤖🚫
    theregister.com/2025/05/15/voy #NASA #Hail #Mary #Register #HackerNews #ngated

  21. Meet Hēki - the reo Māori word for 🥚. In June-ish, it'll become the most powerful electromagnet ever to fly to and be tested on the International Space Station. Built here in Aotearoa! It's a precursor or tech demo for a future ion thruster called Kōkākō - named for a native NZ bird 🐦
    spectrum.ieee.org/electric-pro
    #space #science #scicomm #thruster #iss #nz #NZTwits

  22. Meet Hēki - the reo Māori word for 🥚. In June-ish, it'll become the most powerful electromagnet ever to fly to and be tested on the International Space Station. Built here in Aotearoa! It's a precursor or tech demo for a future ion thruster called Kōkākō - named for a native NZ bird 🐦
    spectrum.ieee.org/electric-pro
    #space #science #scicomm #thruster #iss #nz #NZTwits

  23. Meet Hēki - the reo Māori word for 🥚. In June-ish, it'll become the most powerful electromagnet ever to fly to and be tested on the International Space Station. Built here in Aotearoa! It's a precursor or tech demo for a future ion thruster called Kōkākō - named for a native NZ bird 🐦
    spectrum.ieee.org/electric-pro
    #space #science #scicomm #thruster #iss #nz #NZTwits

  24. Meet Hēki - the reo Māori word for 🥚. In June-ish, it'll become the most powerful electromagnet ever to fly to and be tested on the International Space Station. Built here in Aotearoa! It's a precursor or tech demo for a future ion thruster called Kōkākō - named for a native NZ bird 🐦
    spectrum.ieee.org/electric-pro
    #space #science #scicomm #thruster #iss #nz #NZTwits

  25. Meet Hēki - the reo Māori word for 🥚. In June-ish, it'll become the most powerful electromagnet ever to fly to and be tested on the International Space Station. Built here in Aotearoa! It's a precursor or tech demo for a future ion thruster called Kōkākō - named for a native NZ bird 🐦
    spectrum.ieee.org/electric-pro
    #space #science #scicomm #thruster #iss #nz #NZTwits