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A pulsed plasma thruster (PPT), also known as a Pulsed Plasma Rocket (PPR), or as a plasma jet engine (PJE), is a form of electric spacecraft propulsion. [1] PPTs are generally considered the simplest form of electric spacecraft propulsion and were the first form of electric propulsion to be flown in space, having flown on two Soviet probes ...
Rocket 3 (2020–2022) LauncherOne (2020–2023) Firefly Alpha (2021–present) Space Launch System (2022–present) RS1 (2023–present) Terran 1 (2023) SpaceX Starship (2023–present) Vulcan Centaur (2024–present) New Glenn (2025-present) Rocket 4 (Under development, expected 2025) Neutron (Under development, expected 2025)
In May 2024, it was announced the spacecraft had reached substantial completion in preparation for launch later in the year; [77] however NASA subsequently moved the ESCAPADE payload from the first flight of New Glenn to a later flight of the rocket. [78] In November 2024, AST SpaceMobile selected Blue Origin to launch some of its Block 2 ...
Rocket Lab, in contrast, says it can take NASA to Mars and back for "less than $4 billion and as early as 2031." Illustration of rocket launching over a red planet with the word mars below in ...
The Ad Astra Rocket Company, a U.S. Delaware corporation, is a rocket propulsion company dedicated to the development of advanced plasma rocket propulsion technology. Located in Webster, Texas , three miles away from NASA 's Johnson Space Center , and Liberia, Costa Rica, the company was incorporated on January 14, 2005.
The Shuttle-C was a study by NASA to turn the Space Shuttle launch stack into a dedicated uncrewed cargo launcher. The Space Shuttle external tank and Space Shuttle Solid Rocket Boosters (SRBs) would be combined with a cargo module in place of the shuttle orbiter including the RS-25 engines.
In 2023, NASA joined the DARPA program in developing the nuclear thermal rocket (NTR) to carry astronaut crews to deep-space destinations like Mars. [6] DRACO will be the world's first in-orbit demonstration of a NTR engine. [7] It will reportedly be launched aboard a Vulcan Centaur as a payload. [8]
FILE - An American flag flies in the breeze as NASA's new moon rocket sits on Launch Pad 39-B after being scrubbed at the Kennedy Space Center Sept. 3, 2022, in Cape Canaveral, Fla.