Humanity’s first lunar space station will offer new ways to explore space and do science, but it will also present unprecedented health and safety risks. Reading time 8 minutes NASA, along with a ...

The AEPS engines are more than twice as powerful as current in-space ion thrusters. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. NASA and ...

Engineers from NASA and Aerojet Rocketdyne are beginning qualification testing on the cutting-edge solar electric propulsion (SEP) thrusters that will change the in-space propulsion game. The ...

As humanity is getting ready to return to the Moon, it made it clear that this time we're not going there just as visitors, but as colonists. Sure, the early missions of the Artemis program will limit ...

NASA and the Canadian Space Agency (CSA) finalized an agreement between the United States and Canada to collaborate on the Gateway, an outpost orbiting the Moon that will provide vital support for a ...

In one way or another, the Lunar Gateway has lingered around the periphery of NASA’s human exploration program since the Obama administration. Back then, the elements that eventually coalesced into ...

The delivery of three 12 kilowatt Hall-effect thrusters to NASA’s Lunar Gateway marks a pivotal moment in how the United States plans to move and maintain a crew-tended outpost in deep space. By ...

A view from inside the vacuum chamber showing the Advanced Electric Propulsion System fired up during qualification testing at NASA Glenn. Engineers from NASA and Aerojet Rocketdyne are beginning ...