Is gravity getting your satellite down? Too bad it doesn’t have a Mini-Helicon Plasma Thruster on board. The aeronautics minds at MIT have developed this new propulsion system as a lighter, more ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

This tiny fingernail-length space thruster chip runs on the greenest propellant of all: water. Designed to maneuver the smallest classes of satellite, the operation of this Iridium Catalyzed ...