Friday, April 5, 2013 - 4:07pm
Did MIT just announce plans to build TIE fighters?
ion propulsion stories
Tuesday, December 22, 2009 - 12:14pm
At the beginning of Avatar, one of the ship's technicians tells the crew that they've been in cryogenic stasis for over five years — the time it takes to get from Earth to Pandora. Makes you wonder how they got...
Thursday, August 6, 2009 - 2:02pm
Exciting news is coming out of the world of propulsion. In a talk this week in Denver, Michael Patterson, the principal investigator on NASA's Evolutionary Xenon Thruster (or NEXT) program, said that the next generation ion engine could go into...
