The “caterpillar drive” in The Hunt for Red October allowed the sub to travel virtually undetected through the ocean, but real examples of magnetohydrodynamic drives (MHDs) are rare. The US Navy’s ...

There have been some laboratory experiments and theoretical work done to validate aspects of the plasma magnet propulsion concept. The Plasma Magnet is a wind drag device invented almost twenty years ...

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Yamato-1, a full-scale MHD ship, on display in Kobe, Japan. Photo by Geofrog, via Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.5 The US Defense Advances Research Projects Agency (DARPA) have announced a 42 month programme ...

Centrifugal Magnetic Mirrors could enable commercial nuclear fusion reactors on Earth and are also promising for next level propulsion in space. There is funded near term work for both goals. An early ...

PARIS - This week at the Paris Air Show, MagLev Aero co-founders and father-and-son duo Rod and Ian Randall debuted their state-of-the-art propulsion system for electric vertical takeoff and landing ...

As the commercial space economy accelerates and launch cadences increase, ensuring the absolute reliability of rocket engines and launch vehicle infrastructure has become a critical operational ...

Space startup General Galactic aims to fly a satellite using only water for in-orbit propellant. The 1,100-pound satellite could validate two separate methods for water propulsion when it flies to ...

Applications are invited for a Research Fellow position within the Astronautics Group, in the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics. The post will work on a collaborative project between the ...