Reaching the nearest star system, Alpha Centauri, would take hundreds of thousands of years using current rocket propulsion technology. Researchers in the J. Mike Walker '66 Department of Mechanical ...

Using even the most advanced rocket propulsion technologies available today, it would take billions of dollars and hundreds of thousands of years to reach our nearest star system, Alpha Centauri. The ...

Matter-antimatter annihilations produce about 10 billion times more energy per unit mass than chemical combustion (which ...

If we achieve advanced nuclear, antimatter propulsion or other advance propulsion it would be possible to achieve near constant acceleration. This would enable travel times to Mars in the 3-8 day ...

There are many different ways to get to Mars, but there are always tradeoffs. Chemical propulsion, proven the most popular, can quickly get a spacecraft to the red planet. But they come at a high cost ...

The hybrid electric propulsion system presents significant potential and advantages for the advancement of general electric aviation. Efforts to optimize the parameters of the serial hybrid electric ...

The 270-kW hybrid-electric powertrain will be flown in Ampaire’s ARPA-E Bird testbed (foreground). Credit: Ampaire Ampaire plans to develop a hybrid-electric propulsion system for light aircraft under ...

A sequence shows a metasurface “metajet” moving under laser illumination, demonstrating light-driven maneuver in a Texas A&M University study. Reaching the nearest star system, Alpha Centauri, would ...