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NASA fires up a lithium-fed thruster at 120 kilowatts — the most powerful electric engine the agency has ever tested for Mars

On Feb. 24, 2026, inside a vacuum chamber at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, a prototype thruster ...
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Cornell’s insect-inspired 3D model could allow flapping-wing robots to fly stably

Researchers at Cornell University have developed a 3D computational model that decodes the complex physics behind how insects ...
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NASA is making a powerful new ion engine to send astronauts to Mars — and it just passed its 1st test

"This marks the first time in the United States that an electric propulsion system has operated at power levels this high, ...