provide long range, high capacity commercial transportation. The aircraft was designed, as part of the European Union-funded Long-Term Advanced Propulsion Concepts...

LAPCAT (Long-Term Advanced Propulsion Concepts and Technologies) was a 36-month European FP6 study to examine ways to produce engines for a Mach number...

Field propulsion is the concept of spacecraft propulsion where no propellant is necessary but instead momentum of the spacecraft is changed by an interaction...

The NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC) is a NASA program for development of far reaching, long term advanced concepts by "creating breakthroughs...

and human missions to Mars. Hypothetical in-space propulsion technologies describe propulsion technologies that could meet future space science and exploration...

distances between the Solar System and nearby stars, interstellar travel is not possible with current propulsion technologies. To reach stars within reasonable...

emerging technologies including advanced alloys and composite material, advanced avionics and fly-by-wire flight control systems, higher power propulsion systems...

propulsion system as a means of accomplishing high delta-V missions such as an interstellar precursor mission in a NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts project...

Electric Propulsion' concept. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has created designs that are able to fly for short distances and at low speeds...

pulse propulsion to maximize survivable power has remained common among serious concepts for interstellar flight without external power beaming and for...

Hypothetical technology is technology that does not exist yet, but that could exist in the future. This article presents examples of technologies that have...

(NRHO)—offers long-term stability with low propellant requirements for orbital station-keeping, by using a precise balance point in the gravities of Earth and the...

to theoretical concepts for launch into space where much of the speed and altitude needed to achieve orbit is provided by a propulsion technique that...

Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) is a Federally Funded Research and Development Center (FFRDC) in La Cañada Flintridge, California, Crescenta Valley, United...

missions to test solar propulsion and navigation have been proposed since the 1980s. The first spacecraft to make use of the technology was IKAROS, launched...

be reusable and will utilize next-generation nuclear thermal propulsion technology and low-enriched uranium, with the U.S. Space Force to provide the...

generate electricity for some form of electric spacecraft propulsion system. The propulsion concepts that employ these mechanisms generally fall into four...

develop key technologies that would provide the Air Force with air dominance. These technologies revolve around several areas such as propulsion, stealth...

project development. Its renderings and concepts showed a stealth twin-engined tailless jet with two-seat tandem cockpit and a blended wing fuselage. Boeing...

the performance of advanced solar electric propulsion (ion engines) and broad-band laser communication in space. These new technologies would help send the...

long-term survival of human civilisation. The programme begins with an interview with Dr Dario Izzo of the European Space Agency's Advanced Concepts Team...

See the spacecraft propulsion article for a discussion of a number of other technologies that could, in the medium to longer term, be the basis of interplanetary...

medium and long term (typically 10 – 20 years). This would include how emerging technologies, systems and methods may affect tactical concepts and doctrines...

scientific study examining advanced spacecraft propulsion systems. A common science-fiction device is to posit a faster-than-light propulsion system (such as warp...

engine altogether, relying solely on electric motors for propulsion. Occasionally the term powerplant is casually used to refer to the engine or, less...

ISBN 9780801873386. Richard Varvill & Alan Bond (2003). "A Comparison of Propulsion Concepts for SSTO Reusable Launchers" (PDF). JBIS. Archived from the original...

Space tethers are long cables which can be used for propulsion, momentum exchange, stabilization and attitude control, or maintaining the relative positions...

electrically powered spacecraft propulsion concepts are the electrodeless plasma thruster, the microwave arcjet rocket, and the pulsed inductive thruster...

shifted to a general development of new technologies for European launchers. FLPP develops and matures technologies that are deemed promising for future...

Shuttle. The Soviet Union developed vital technologies involving long-term human life in free-fall on the Salyut and later Mir space stations. The 1970s witnessed...