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NASA fires up a lithium-fed thruster at 120 kilowatts — the most powerful electric engine the agency has ever tested for trips to Mars

On February 24, 2026, inside a specialized vacuum chamber at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, engineers ...

Rocket Lab Unveils New Electric Propulsion Satellite Thruster to Meet Constellation Demand

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 ...
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Powerful Next-Generation Rockets That Could Drive Future Space Missions

Next-generation rockets are transforming space exploration with reusable systems, heavy payloads, and deep space mission ...

NASA’s Lithium-Fed Nuclear Thruster Flares to Life in First of Its Kind Test

NASA fired up a prototype of its electromagnetic thruster inside a vacuum chamber, reaching power levels of up to 120 kilowatts—the highest achieved in U.S. tests of an electric propulsion system.

The space engine no one expected to see firing this soon just produced plasma in the UK, and that shifts the scale of what rockets could become

Fusion engine fires plasma in UK test, marking a key step toward faster space travel and next generation rocket propulsion ...
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Fusion rocket test challenges propulsion limits

UK-based Pulsar Fusion claims a world-first by generating 'first plasma' inside its Sunbird nuclear fusion rocket prototype, demonstrated live at Jeff Bezos' MARS Conference. While far from a ...