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Rockets Can Run On Toffee

Monday, October 12th, 2009 - 11:54:19 - Ehud Rattner

An engineer at the University of Hertfordshire helped to demonstrate to BBC 1’s Bang goes the Theory audiences recently that rockets can run on...

Fast Plasma Rocket Test
Monday, September 15th, 2008 - Janice Karin
Ad Astra Rocket Company of Webster, Texas is nearly ready to test its Variable Specific Impulse Magnetoplasma Rocket...

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Ion Engine Enters Space Race

Monday, April 21st, 2008 - 10:13:16 - Sarah Gingichashvili

Engineer Neil Wallace peers into a huge vacuum chamber designed to replicate - as far as possible - the conditions of space. Cryogenic pumps can be...

SkySails – Towing Kites For Ships
Monday, December 24th, 2007 - Noa Rotkop
SkySails is a new alternative propulsion system for ships. This innovative system consists of a large automated towing kite...