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NASA just switched on a giant solar engine

NASA just switched on a giant solar engine, and it’s headed for the moon

The Gateway, NASA’s upcoming lunar space station, is one step closer to reality as engineers have successfully powered on its solar electric propulsion system, a spacecraft engine designed to orbit and maneuver around the Moon.

Greek Reporter · 23h

NASA Fires Up a Massive Solar Engine to Support Moon Missions

Live Science on MSN · 5h

Artemis 2 mission update: Rollout imminent as NASA prepares first crewed Artemis mission to the moon

GeekWire

Portal Space Systems brings its solar thermal propulsion system up to full power during test

Portal’s heat exchanger thruster, known as Flare, fires up during a test in a vacuum chamber. (Portal Space Systems Photo) Bothell, Wash.-based Portal Space Systems says it has successfully ...

AOL

Race to Sedna: New fusion and solar sail engines could reach distant world in 10 years

In the frozen outskirts of the solar system, a reddish dwarf planet orbits in silence. Known as Sedna, it is so distant that one trip around the Sun takes more than 11,000 years. For much of that ...

SpaceNews

MMA Space Launches FlexArray Solar Array System at 2025 Small Satellite Conference

BROOMFIELD, Colo., August 11, 2025 – MMA Space has developed a low-cost solar array capable of generating tens of kilowatts that can be manufactured in a fraction of the time of conventional ...

Morning Overview on MSN

NASA’s new nuclear engine could transform space travel forever

NASA’s push for a new nuclear rocket engine is not just another upgrade to the hardware we strap to the bottom of spacecraft.

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