On February 24, 2026, engineers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory fed liquid lithium into a prototype plasma thruster, ...
The sound of drones, the movements of satellites, the everyday activities of scientific research stations: all might seem ...
NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory has successfully tested a lithium-fed magnetoplasmadynamic thruster at 120 kilowatts, the highest power level ever reached by a U.S. electric propulsion system. The ...