At the core of NASA’s Artemis mission is Gateway, a lunar outpost that demands advanced power and propulsion. Aviation Week ...

The U.S. Navy has awarded Skydweller a $1.4 million contract to develop electric propulsion as it explores all-electric ...

Pulsar Fusion, a propulsion startup based in England, announced last week it is partnering with the University of Michigan to research electric Hall-effect thruster tech. The UK Space Agency is ...

There’s more than one way to propel an airplane. While it’s true that most aircraft engines today run on fossil fuels like Jet A, Jet B, Avgas or diesel, many readers may be shocked (pun intended) to ...

An artist’s rendering shows a hydrogen-fueled Dash 8 airplane equipped with a MagniX propulsion system, highlighted in the green cutaway view. (MagniX Illustration) MagniX has been working on electric ...

MagniX unveiled two new electric propulsion units (EPUs), the magni350 and magni650, optimized for commercial aviation applications, building on successful flight tests of their magni500 EPU in a de ...

Boeing- and Pratt & Whitney-backed Canadian aircraft developer is targeting the 50- to 100-seat market with its matured ...

Electric cars have become more common, but building a commercial electric plane is a different story. Just ask Mohamed Ali, vice president for engineering at GE. “Electric motors behave very ...

Dr. Kristina Lemmer and student Margaret Mooney work in the Aerospace Laboratory for Plasma Experiments. KALAMAZOO, Mich.—Former NASA chief scientist and current undersecretary for science and ...

While we at Electrek often tend to focus on electric vehicles taking over roads, it’s important to remember that our inevitable abandonment of fossil fuels stems to all modes of transportation, ...

JET AIRLINERS are not, in fact, jet airliners. Though the first of the breed, the de Havilland Comet, really was powered only by sleek turbojets that fitted elegantly into its wings, it did not take ...