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Propulsion is the generation of force by any combination of pushing and/or pulling to modify the translational motion of an object, which is typically...

The Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) is a federally funded research and development center in La Cañada Flintridge, California, United States. Founded in...

Spacecraft propulsion is any method used to accelerate spacecraft and artificial satellites. In-space propulsion exclusively deals with propulsion systems...

Marine propulsion is the mechanism or system used to generate thrust to move a watercraft through water. While paddles and sails are still used on some...

Jet propulsion is the propulsion of an object in one direction, produced by ejecting a jet of fluid in the opposite direction. By Newton's third law, the...

An astronaut propulsion unit (or astronaut maneuvering unit) is used to move an astronaut relative to the spaceship during a spacewalk. The first astronaut...

Nuclear marine propulsion is propulsion of a ship or submarine with heat provided by a nuclear reactor. The power plant heats water to produce steam for...

Nuclear propulsion includes a wide variety of propulsion methods that use some form of nuclear reaction as their primary power source. Many aircraft carriers...

thruster, ion drive, or ion engine is a form of electric propulsion used for spacecraft propulsion. An ion thruster creates a cloud of positive ions from...

Air-independent propulsion (AIP), or air-independent power, is any marine propulsion technology that allows a non-nuclear submarine to operate without...

Electromagnetic propulsion (EMP) is the principle of accelerating an object by the utilization of a flowing electrical current and magnetic fields. The...

Laser propulsion is a form of beam-powered propulsion where the energy source is a remote (usually ground-based) laser system and separate from the reaction...

Spacecraft electric propulsion encompasses propulsion systems that use electric energy to accelerate and expel propellant, generating thrust through electric...

Field propulsion refers to propulsion system concepts in which thrust arises from interactions with external fields or ambient media, rather than primarily...

Nuclear pulse propulsion or external pulsed plasma propulsion is a hypothetical method of spacecraft propulsion that uses nuclear explosions for thrust...

air-breathing MHD propulsion (where ambient air is ionized) that is still limited to theoretical concepts and early experiments. Plasma propulsion engines using...

Antimatter-catalyzed nuclear pulse propulsion Helios (propulsion system) NERVA (Nuclear Engine for Rocket Vehicle Application) Nuclear propulsion Nuclear salt-water rocket...

In aeronautics, Distributed propulsion is an arrangement in which the propulsive and related air flows are distributed over the aerodynamic surfaces of...

that generates thrust by jet propulsion. While this broad definition may include rocket, water jet, and hybrid propulsion, the term jet engine typically...

Nuclear Propulsion (ANP) program and the preceding Nuclear Energy for the Propulsion of Aircraft (NEPA) project worked to develop a nuclear propulsion system...

electric propulsion (IEP), full electric propulsion (FEP) or integrated full electric propulsion (IFEP) is an arrangement of marine propulsion systems...

antimatter propulsion spacecraft is a proposed hypothetical class of space technology that utilize antimatter for power within spacecraft propulsion. There...

Screw propulsion may refer to: Propeller (marine) propulsion of water vehicles Screw-propelled vehicle on land This disambiguation page lists articles...

A fusion rocket is a theoretical design for a rocket driven by fusion propulsion, which could provide efficient and sustained acceleration in space without...

and nearby stars, interstellar travel is not practicable with current propulsion technologies. To travel between stars within a reasonable amount of time...

Berg Propulsion is a Swedish company that designs and manufactures controllable-pitch propellers for the marine industry. The company produces customized...

net tonnage 2,057; and deadweight tonnage 1,154 tonnes. Her hull and propulsion system are strengthened for navigation in ice-covered waters according...

AC Propulsion is a San Dimas, California, USA company founded in 1992 by Alan Cocconi, Wally Rippel, and Paul Carosa, that specializes in alternating current-based...

& Whitney manufactures gas turbine engines for industrial use, marine propulsion, and power generation. In 2017, the company reported that it supported...

The Advanced Propulsion Physics Laboratory or "Eagleworks Laboratories" at NASA's Johnson Space Center is a small research group investigating a variety...

The Power and Propulsion Element (PPE), previously known as the Asteroid Redirect Vehicle propulsion system, is a planned element of the Space Reactor‑1...

A plasma propulsion engine is a type of electric propulsion that generates thrust from a quasi-neutral plasma. This is in contrast with ion thruster engines...

Wind-assisted propulsion is the practice of decreasing the fuel consumption of a merchant vessel through the use of sails or some other wind capture device...

Group (Dowty). 1997: Snecma fully acquired the Société européenne de propulsion. 1998: Snecma took full control of Messier-Dowty. 1999: Snecma Services...

HyPrSpace (Hybrid Propulsion for Space) is a rocket startup, founded in 2019, in Bordeaux, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France. It develops orbital (Orbital Baguette-1/OB-1...

The descent propulsion system (DPS — pronounced 'dips'[pronunciation?]) or lunar module descent engine (LMDE), internal designation VTR-10, is a variable-throttle...

Antimatter-catalyzed nuclear pulse propulsion, antiproton-catalyzed nuclear pulse propulsion, ACMF: Antiproton-Catalyzed Microfission-Fusion and AIM:...

Athletic Propulsion Labs (APL) is an American clothing company that specializes in sneakers. Its first shoe, the APL Concept 1, was banned from the National...

Self-propulsion is the autonomous displacement of nano-, micro- and macroscopic natural and artificial objects, containing their own means of motion. Self-propulsion...

The Institute of Space Propulsion in Lampoldshausen is one of the eight research centers of the German Aerospace Center (DLR). Approximately 220 people...

Astern propulsion (as applied to a ship) is a maneuver in which a ship's propelling mechanism is used to develop thrust in a retrograde direction. Astern...

Green Propulsion is a Belgian research and development centre specialising in battery electric and hybrid vehicles. Founded in 2001, it had gone bankrupt...

Magnetic propulsion may refer to: Magnetic sail, a proposed method of spacecraft propulsion which would use a magnetic field to deflect solar wind Linear...

achievable in the Bronze Age. Boats can be categorized by their means of propulsion. These divide into: Unpowered. This involves drifting with the tide or...

Numerical Propulsion System Simulation (NPSS) is an object-oriented, thermodynamic modeling and simulation environment used for the analysis of propulsion, power...

technological and engineering disciplines including aerodynamics, air propulsion, avionics, materials science, structural analysis and manufacturing. The...

Frank Whittle patented the design for a centrifugal gas turbine for jet propulsion. The first successful test run of his engine occurred in England in April...

320 AD. In 1661, Toogood and Hays proposed using screws for waterjet propulsion, though not as a propeller. Robert Hooke in 1681 designed a horizontal...

reentry and splashdown; and the cylindrical service module which provided propulsion, electrical power and storage for various consumables required during...

nuclear electric rocket (more properly nuclear electric propulsion) is a type of spacecraft propulsion system where thermal energy from a nuclear reactor is...

The ISS Propulsion module was proposed as a backup to functions performed by the Zvezda Service Module and Progress spacecraft. Critical ISS functionality...

The ascent propulsion system (APS) or lunar module ascent engine (LMAE) is a fixed-thrust hypergolic rocket engine developed by Bell Aerosystems for use...

natural gas (LNG) propulsion for adverse weather conditions and maneuvering The vessel is also designed to accommodate hydrogen propulsion, a technology currently...

building both in-space propulsion systems and a space launch vehicle. The company currently manufactures satellite propulsion systems with nontoxic propellants...

Solar electric propulsion (SEP) is the combination of solar cells and electric thrusters to propel a spacecraft through outer space. This technology has...

for Kinzhal (Kinzhal-equipped units only) Combined nuclear and steam propulsion system (CONAS) is used on the Kirov battlecruisers. Complementary to the...

Internal drive propulsion or water-jet propulsion is a form of marine propulsion used in recreational boating. Like other forms of motorized boating,...

In engineering, variable-buoyancy propulsion is the use of a buoyancy engine to provide propulsion for a vehicle. The concept was first explored in the...

ISRO Propulsion Complex (IPRC), located at Mahendragiri in Tamil Nadu, is an ISRO centre involved in testing, assembling, and integrating propulsion systems...

photons (radiation pressure by emission) for its propulsion. Photon rockets have been discussed as a propulsion system that could make interstellar flight possible...

The Liquid Propulsion Systems Centre (LPSC) is a research and development centre functioning under ISRO. It has two units located at Valiamala, in Thiruvananthapuram...

The Journal of Propulsion and Power is a bimonthly peer-reviewed scientific journal covering research on aerospace propulsion and power. The editor-in-chief...

referred to as an aero engine, is the power component of an aircraft propulsion system. Aircraft using power components are referred to as powered flight...

The Advanced Propulsion Centre (APC) is a non-profit organisation that facilitates funding to UK-based research and development projects developing net-zero...

A diver propulsion vehicle (DPV), also known as an underwater propulsion vehicle, sea scooter, underwater scooter, scuba sled or swimmer delivery vehicle...

a combined engine and sail propulsion system between 1985 and 1995. In Japan, 17 ships were equipped with this propulsion system. Following the decline...

Theoretical spacecraft propulsion refers to a series of theoretical spacecraft propulsion systems mainly proposed for interstellar travel. The fission...

known as the Todaro class. It features diesel propulsion and an additional air-independent propulsion (AIP) system using proton-exchange membrane (PEM)...

The RBCC, or rocket-based combined cycle propulsion system, was one of the two types of propulsion systems that may have been tested in the Boeing X-43...

Beam-powered propulsion, also known as directed energy propulsion, is a class of aircraft or spacecraft propulsion that uses energy beamed to the spacecraft...

that store energy internally. NTRs have been proposed as a spacecraft propulsion technology, with the earliest ground tests conducted in 1955. The United...

for potential F-35 re-engining. A subsequent Next Generation Adaptive Propulsion (NGAP) program was also launched for a related 35,000–40,000 lbf (156–178 kN)...

the 2020 competition, the name was changed to Wards 10 Best Engines and Propulsion Systems.   Engine was also listed at least once in the International Engine...

proposed to use energy in electric explosion of metals to create rocket propulsion. In the early 1930s the world's first example of an electrothermal rocket...

Retractable thrusters are used as auxiliary propulsion for dynamically positioned vessels and take-home propulsion for military vessels. Underwater-mountable...

units. That same year Leonardo DRS was selected as the main propulsion motor and propulsion motor drive provider. The lead ship motor was delivered to...

designed and built in very limited numbers by the U.S. pioneering company AC Propulsion in the mid 1990s. It was the inspiration and direct predecessor of the...

studying the metallic asteroid 16 Psyche beginning in 2029. NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) manages the project. The spacecraft will orbit the asteroid...

The Rocket Propulsion Establishment at Westcott, Buckinghamshire on the site of the former RAF Westcott has made a number of notable contributions in the...

The Lockheed Propulsion Company was a division of the Lockheed Aircraft Corporation located at 1500 Crafton Avenue in the Mentone, California area northeast...

engine technology led to the demise of the steam engine as a source of propulsion of vehicles on a commercial basis, with relatively few remaining in use...

had somehow influenced gravity electronically and led him to design a propulsion system based on this phenomenon. On 15 April 1927, he applied for a patent...

Atmosphere-breathing electric propulsion, or air-breathing electric propulsion, shortly ABEP, is a propulsion technology for spacecraft, which could allow...

Some nuclear submarines also use a similar turbo–electric propulsion system, with propulsion turbo generators driven by reactor plant steam. Among the...

Space (DoS) since 14 January 2025. He was the Director of the Liquid Propulsion Systems Centre (LPSC) from 23 January 2018 to 14 January 2025, the day...

Advanced Space Propulsion Investigation Committee (ASPIC) was a research group of specialists, including Yoshinari Minami and Takaaki Musha, which was...

a fictional superluminal (faster than the speed of light) spacecraft propulsion system in many science fiction works, most notably Star Trek, and a subject...

much of the speed and altitude needed to achieve orbit is provided by a propulsion technique that is not subject to the limits of the rocket equation. Although...

Breakthrough Propulsion Physics Program (BPP) from 1996 through 2002. This program studied a number of "far out" designs for space propulsion that were not...

The Orbital Propulsion Centre Lampoldshausen (abbreviated LAM), a Division of ArianeGroup, is the European competence centre for development and production...

engine or motor that produces thrust by expelling reaction mass (reaction propulsion), in accordance with Newton's third law of motion. This law of motion...

aircraft propulsion system designed for use in the STOVL variant of the F-35 Lightning II. The complete system, known as the Integrated Lift Fan Propulsion System...

Naval Reactors (NR), which administers the Naval Nuclear Propulsion Program, is an umbrella term for the U.S. government office that has comprehensive...

The Breakthrough Propulsion Physics Project (BPP) was a research project funded by NASA from 1996 to 2002 to study various proposals for revolutionary...

The United States Navy Nuclear Propulsion community consists of naval officers and enlisted members who are specially trained to run and maintain the nuclear...

jettisonable rocket propulsion units used for a variety of Luftwaffe aircraft during World War II, and a revolutionary new propulsion system for submarines...

spacecraft propulsion. PPTs are generally considered the simplest form of electric spacecraft propulsion and were the first form of electric propulsion to be...

more electric traction motors, on which the vehicle solely relies for propulsion. This definition excludes hybrid electric vehicles (HEVs; including mild...

In spacecraft propulsion, a Hall-effect thruster (HET, sometimes referred to as a Hall thruster or Hall-current thruster) is a type of ion thruster in...

electricity to power ion engines, calling this method radioisotope electric propulsion (REP). A power enhancement for radioisotope heat sources based on a self-induced...

Plasmadynamics and Electric Propulsion Laboratory (PEPL) is a University of Michigan laboratory facility for electric propulsion and plasma application research...

There are numerous versions of vehicle propulsion systems. Many of those came into fruition due to need for cleaner vehicles. Each of them might have many...

fission-powered interplanetary mission and to demonstrate nuclear electric propulsion in deep space. Announced in March 2026, the spacecraft would combine a...

sunset over the landing site, twelve days after landing. The orbiting propulsion module remained operational and was repurposed for scientific observations...

one of the world's leading spacecraft propulsion experts and holds several United States patents for propulsion technology. Mueller was born in St. Maries...

Field-emission electric propulsion (FEEP) is an advanced electrostatic space propulsion concept, a form of ion thruster, that uses a liquid metal as a...

hydrojet, or water jet is a marine system that produces a jet of water for propulsion. The mechanical arrangement may be a ducted propeller (axial-flow pump)...

500 mi) and a maximum speed around 17 knots (31 km/h; 20 mph) under hybrid propulsion. Classification is with Lloyd's Register, and gross tonnage is 7,247 GT...

Aero Propulsion Alliance was a European aeroengine consortium set up to develop the TP400-D1 turboprop for the Airbus A400M military transport aircraft...

occultist. Parsons was one of the principal founders of both the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) and Aerojet. He invented the first rocket engine to use...

Solid Fuel Ducted Ramjet (SFDR) is a missile propulsion system currently being developed by the Defence Research and Development Organisation of India...

High Power Electric Propulsion (HiPEP) is a variation of ion thruster for use in nuclear electric propulsion applications. It was ground-tested in 2003...

for the present AC power distribution system for ships with electric propulsion. This concept represents a new way of distributing energy for low-voltage...

yacht is laid out for a crew of 53. The ship has a diesel-electric hybrid propulsion system, allowing a top speed of 24 kn. Each of the two diesel engines...

The Main Propulsion Test Article (MPTA-098) was built by Rockwell International as a testbed for the definitive propulsion and fuel delivery systems for...

TSS-1R, and Plasma Motor Generator (PMG) experiments. As part of a tether propulsion system, craft can use long, strong conductors (though not all tethers...

Jet Propulsion Laboratory Development Ephemeris (abbreviated JPL DE(number), or simply DE(number)) designates one of a series of mathematical models of...

neither of the two carriages is equipped with an engine of its own; propulsion is provided by an electric motor in the engine room (typically at the...

of Alabama in Huntsville. He is also the Eminent Scholar in Propulsion within the Propulsion Research Center. Ligrani was born in Cheyenne, Wyoming. After...

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

Helios is a design for a spacecraft propulsion system such that small (0.1 kiloton) nuclear bombs would be detonated in a chamber roughly 30 feet (9.1 m)...

A magnetic sail is a proposed method of spacecraft propulsion where an onboard magnetic field source interacts with a plasma wind (e.g., the solar wind)...

Azipod is a trademarked azimuth thruster pod design, a marine propulsion unit consisting of a fixed pitch propeller mounted on a steerable gondola ("pod")...

Propellantless propulsion is any spacecraft propulsion system that accelerates the craft by interacting with the environment rather than expelling on-board...

used by the United States Navy to provide electricity generation and propulsion on Columbia-class submarines. The S1B designation stands for: S = Submarine...

battery electric vehicle produced by the American company AC Propulsion. AC Propulsion executives announced their intention to convert Scion xBs to battery...

concepts were produced in response, all using integrated rocket/ramjet propulsion: S225XR from British Aerospace (BAe), Alenia Difesa, GEC-Marconi, and...

propulsion system characterized by high specific power, variable thrust, specific impulse, and minimal radiation emissions of spacecraft propulsion system...

bulk carrier that operated commercially with a combined engine and sail propulsion system from 1984 onwards. Following the decline of "classic" sailing cargo...

An inboard motor is a marine propulsion system for boats. As opposed to an outboard motor, where an engine is mounted outside the hull of the craft, an...

prime to one another. JPL sequences were originally developed in the Jet Propulsion Labs, from which the name for these code sequences is derived. Areas of...

bulk carrier vessel owned by Mitsubishi Corporation and fitted with wind-propulsion technology. The ship was built in 2017 and is flagged in Singapore. In...

energy module\unit", NPPS in English) is an under development nuclear propulsion spacecraft with the intention to facilitate the transportation of large...

researcher at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Chahat was born in Angers, France to a family of Algerian...

talent and equipment for the core disciplines of aircraft structures, propulsion, avionics and electronic warfare evaluation of the latest weapon system...

to leverage nuclear propulsion to drastically reduce travel time to deep-space destinations such as Mars. Nuclear thermal propulsion was expected to yield...

Denizaltı, lit. 'National Submarine'), is a class of air-independent propulsion (AIP) attack submarines currently under construction for the Turkish Navy...

throughout the 20th century. Internal combustion engines were the dominant propulsion mechanisms for cars and trucks for about 100 years, although electricity-powered...

Arab Emirates. One of the technical drivers for Gateway was the limited propulsion capability of Orion's European Service Module used for the Artemis missions...

stagnated for over a century, until application of new technologies for propulsion and stability. The first military submersible was Turtle (1775), a hand-powered...

hypervelocity collisions, as weapons, or as mass drivers for spacecraft propulsion.[citation needed] They are usually of the AC linear induction motor (LIM)...

spacecraft propulsion using radiation pressure exerted by sunlight on large surfaces. A number of spaceflight missions to test solar propulsion and navigation...

Bleed Cycle Engines for Launchers (PDF). 39th AIAA/ASME/SAE/ASEE Joint Propulsion Conference and Exhibit. AIAA. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2016-03-03...

A sterndrive or inboard/outboard drive (I/O) is a form of marine propulsion which combines inboard power with outboard drive. The engine sits just forward...

The Swiss Propulsion Laboratory (SPL) is a rocket laboratory that runs integrated programs focusing on research and development of space-technology and...

Advanced Electric Propulsion System (AEPS) is a solar electric propulsion system for spacecraft that is being designed, developed and tested by NASA and...

the Spanish company Navantia. It features diesel propulsion and an additional air-independent propulsion (AIP). It is now marketed as the Scorpène 2000...

module component of the Orion spacecraft, serving as its primary power and propulsion component until it is discarded at the end of each mission. In January...

generally described as rocket artillery. Airborne explosive devices without propulsion are referred to as shells if fired by an artillery piece and bombs if...

the Nuclear Energy for the Propulsion of Aircraft (NEPA) project, which conducted studies until the Aircraft Nuclear Propulsion (ANP) program replaced NEPA...

wheels were the predominant way of propulsion for steam-powered boats. In the late 19th century, paddle propulsion was largely superseded by the screw...

S2CID 203039055. "History and principles of rocket propulsion", Rocket and Spacecraft Propulsion, Springer Praxis Books, Springer Berlin Heidelberg,...

known for proposing new Alcubierre drive concepts and promoting advanced propulsion projects. White obtained a B.S. degree in mechanical engineering from...

SE was a German manufacturer of large-bore diesel engines for marine propulsion systems and power plant applications. In 2010 it was merged with MAN Turbo...

of the Atago class, with an updated Aegis Combat System and electric propulsion system. Maya was commissioned on March 19, 2020. Haguro was commissioned...

submarines that used a high-test peroxide propulsion system, which offered a combination of air-independent propulsion and high submerged speeds. In the early...

thrust for crewed flight or useful loads. The principle of ionic wind propulsion with corona-generated charged particles was discovered soon after the...

Rocketdyne, an aerospace company that manufactured, among other things, propulsion systems. The name comes from "yoyo", a repetitive motion, and "dyne",...

cyclorotor, cycloidal rotor, cycloidal propeller or cyclogiro, is a fluid propulsion device that converts shaft power into the acceleration of a fluid using...

this is a partial list spacecrafts that are equipped with electric space propulsion. This includes both cruise engines and/or thrusters for altitude and orbit...

2016 to develop and test adaptive engines for sixth generation fighter propulsion as well as potential re-engining of the F-35 from the existing F135 turbofan...

electric propulsion system development company. It is located in Kaliningrad in Kaliningrad Oblast. It was founded in 1955 as a Propulsion laboratory...

in June 1940. It was renamed the Flight Propulsion Research Laboratory in 1947, the Lewis Flight Propulsion Laboratory (LFPL) in 1948 (after George W...

Mast Factory (SMAF) in reference to the eponymous subsidiary, is a wind propulsion technology designed for large vessels, developed by Chantiers de l'Atlantique...

third moving cable providing propulsion. With this form of lift, the grip of an aerial tramway cabin is fixed onto the propulsion cable and cannot be decoupled...

acceleration is a hypothetical method of space travel that involves the use of a propulsion system that generates a constant acceleration rather than the short, impulsive...

Brown's research influenced some amateur experimenters who build "ionic propulsion lifters" powered by high voltage. There are still claims that Brown discovered...

controllers but are managed from separate organizations, either the Jet Propulsion Laboratory or the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory...

Jupiter moons, it was to be propelled by an ion propulsion system via either the High Power Electric Propulsion or NEXIS engine, and powered by a small fission...

a 'landing segment' that consists of a new lunar-module attached to a propulsion-module which together are to be launched autonomously into a trans-lunar...

buoyancy, and pedals for propulsion Human-powered hydrofoil, a hydrofoil that can use pedals and various other means for propulsion Pedalo, or paddle boat...

Organisation and the chief architect of rocket propulsion in India. He was responsible for the creation of Liquid Propulsion Systems Centre. For his significant...

in Electric Propulsion", is the highest honor in the field of electric propulsion for spacecraft bestowed by the Electric Rocket Propulsion Society (ERPS)...

the development of scramjet propulsion. Billig's primary research was in the area of high-speed, air-breathing propulsion for advanced flight vehicles...

which they say actually references air-independent propulsion (AIP) technology, the conventional propulsion technology used on existing Type 039A/B/C submarines...

magnetoplasmadynamic (MPD) thruster (MPDT) is a form of electrically powered spacecraft propulsion which uses the Lorentz force (the force on a charged particle by an electromagnetic...

submarine-launched ballistic missiles (SLBMs), a penetrating periscope, an auxiliary propulsion system, and an independently developed lithium battery system. It is the...

A rotor ship is a type of ship designed to use the Magnus effect for propulsion. The ship is propelled, at least in part, by large powered vertical rotors...

propulsion. General Applied Science Laboratory was founded in 1956 by Antonio Ferri and became a developer and testing house for advanced propulsion systems...

An outboard motor is a propulsion system for boats, consisting of a self-contained unit that includes engine, gearbox and propeller or jet drive, designed...

The Propulsion Wind Tunnel Facility, located at Arnold Engineering Development Complex, Arnold Air Force Base, Tennessee, holds three wind tunnels: the...

able to reproduce, digest, float, maintain body positioning, and use jet propulsion to move. Most colonies are long, thin, transparent floaters living in...

arriving at a body with an atmosphere, as it requires less fuel than using propulsion to slow down. A more extreme maneuver is aerocapture, where a spacecraft...

advantages over "conventional" (typically diesel-electric) submarines. Nuclear propulsion, being completely independent of air, frees the submarine from the need...

Earth-based tracking systems. CubeSat propulsion has made rapid advancements in: cold gas, chemical propulsion, electric propulsion, and solar sails. The biggest...

missions. This was NASA's first serious foray into nuclear spacecraft propulsion since the cancellation of the SNTP project in 1995. The project was planned...

equipped with a means of propulsion (MoP), capable of sustained soaring flight without thrust from the means of propulsion. In 1935, an occasional or...

Sydney Harbour. The ships are designed for future conversion to electric propulsion for low-emissions travel. In June 2023, Transport for NSW announced it...

Combined diesel and diesel (CODAD) is a propulsion system for ships using two diesel engines to power a single propeller shaft. A gearbox and clutches...

staging. On the 500 series this was reduced to two, and two small Auxiliary Propulsion System (APS) thruster modules were added as ullage motors for restarting...

for all shipboard consumers from propulsion motors to lighting in the accommodation spaces. Initially, two propulsion alternatives were proposed during...

Nuclear Propulsion (ANP) program, and the preceding Nuclear Energy for the Propulsion of Aircraft (NEPA) project, worked to develop a nuclear propulsion system...

rockets use an inert propellant, heated by electricity (electrothermal propulsion) or a nuclear reactor (nuclear thermal rocket). Chemical rockets are powered...

Reactionless drive refers to hypothetical and unproven forms of spacecraft propulsion that would generate thrust without expelling propellant or other reaction...

The Société d'Études pour la Propulsion par Réaction (SEPR) (in French: Jet Propulsion Research Company) was a French research and manufacturing company...

a flat-bottomed boat which does not have its own means of mechanical propulsion, equivalent to a trailer on land. Their original use was on inland waterways...

Combined gas or gas (COGOG) is a propulsion system for ships using gas turbine engines. A high efficiency, low output turbine is used for cruising speeds...

body. Other developments are designed to improve rocket launching and propulsion, as well as the use of non-traditional sources of energy. Using extraterrestrial...

Aerojet was an American rocket and missile propulsion manufacturer based primarily in Rancho Cordova, California, with divisions in Redmond, Washington...

is an American private spaceflight aerospace company providing solid propulsion systems and small launch. The company is run by CEO and founder Steve...

the Moon) causes the spacecraft to return to the primary body without propulsion (hence the term free). Many free-return trajectories are designed to intersect...

payment to the United Kingdom to acquire long-lead items for the nuclear propulsion systems of Australia’s first two SSN-AUKUS submarines under the AUKUS...

SR-72's engine design. The SR-72 was envisioned to have an air-breathing propulsion system that could operate at subsonic, transonic, supersonic, and hypersonic...

Oceanvolt is a Finnish manufacturer of electric and hybrid propulsion systems for sailboats and other marine vessels. Founded in 2004, the company is headquartered...

interstellar travel using a black hole as an energy source for spacecraft propulsion. The concept was first discussed in science fiction, notably in the book...

of manufacturers, with Iveco Fiat tasked with developing the hull and propulsion systems, while Oto Melara was responsible for developing the turrets and...

The high–low system (or high–low pressure system, high–low propulsion system, high–low projection system) is a design of cannon and anti-tank warfare launcher...

extremity: stance and swing. These can be further divided into absorption, propulsion, initial swing, and terminal swing. Due to the continuous nature of running...

economic propulsion. Paddlewheels as the main motive source became standard on these early vessels. It was an effective means of propulsion under ideal...

is an American aerospace engineer known for research on beamed-energy propulsion and for proposing and developing the lightcraft, a laser-propelled flight...

The Propulsion and Structural Test Facility, also known as Building 4572 and the Static Test Stand, was a rocket testing facility of the George C. Marshall...

used for crew-rated spacecraft propulsion applications. It is currently used in the Soyuz-TMA-M spacecraft propulsion module KTDU-80, and its sibling...

and innovative integrated electric propulsion system. Integrated electric propulsion seeks to supply all propulsion and the ship's electrical load using...

The Chief of Naval Operations claimed in 2005 that "the DD(X) hull and propulsion plant will be spiraled into the CG(X) platform with about 80% design overlap"...

The Northrop Grumman XRQ-73 SHEPARD (Series Hybrid Electric Propulsion AiRcraft Demonstration) is a tailless flying wing hybrid-electric Group 3 unmanned...

by Alexander Schleicher. It is a self-launcher that uses an electrical propulsion system. The AS 34Me is a single-seat, mid-wing sailplane of composite...

generators, reverse-engineered extraterrestrial technology, anti-gravity propulsion systems, and other generally unproven or physically impossible, low-cost...

The USC Rocket Propulsion Laboratory (USCRPL) is a student-run experimental rocketry organization at the University of Southern California (USC), founded...

the ionized particles, MOA can in principle be described as an electric propulsion system, similar to an ion engine. However, because of the interaction...

considered the first commercial vessel to combine diesel engine propulsion with sail propulsion since the decline of traditional sailing cargo ships. This...

career, Asif has conducted academic research in the field of electric propulsion, with work involving plasma diagnostics and gridded ion thruster systems...

Orbital Elements: Numbered Asteroids, ELEMENTS.NUMBR (64 MB)". NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. July 2024. "Data Available from the Minor Planet Center: Discovery...

billion cost was deemed infeasible. NASA turned to industry and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) to form a new, more fiscally feasible mission profile...

combines a conventional internal combustion engine propulsion system with an electric propulsion system. These types of buses normally use a diesel–electric...

and military aircraft engines; launch vehicle, spacecraft and missile propulsion systems; as well as various other aerospace and military equipment and...

The Bell Rocket Belt is a low-power rocket propulsion device that allows an individual to safely travel or leap over small distances. It is a type of rocket...

Settings: quantities code=6 "JPL Small-Body Database Lookup: C/1680 V1". Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Retrieved 6 July 2025. "JPL Horizons On-Line Ephemeris for...

nuclear propulsion (a 97% increase). Congress appropriated $321.9 million for general class development and $319.7 million for nuclear propulsion. The Navy's...

Royal Navy. 15 June 2025. Retrieved 15 June 2025. "Rolls-Royce Seals Propulsion Systems Contract For Royal Navy's Type 31 Frigates". navalnews.com. 29...

engineer for the Entry, Descent, and Landing (EDL) group at the NASA Jet Propulsion Lab who is known for her work on the Mars Perseverance Rover Mission....

other watercraft can experience. These can be affected by the ship’s own propulsion as well as by the water and air through which it moves, which move independently...

Freight trains are made up of one or more locomotives which provide propulsion, along with one or more railroad cars (also known as wagons) which carry...

technologies being developed for ARM have continued, especially the ion thruster propulsion system that would have been flown on the robotic mission. The main objective...

for scramjet-powered aircraft. A study in the UK, NAPKIN (New Aviation, Propulsion Knowledge and Innovation Network), with collaboration from Heathrow Airport...

February 15, 2016, to May 6, 2019. Produced in cooperation with NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, the show teaches science and astronomy. The show is aimed...

electrothermal thruster under development for possible use in spacecraft propulsion. It uses radio waves to ionize and heat an inert propellant, forming a...

has a diesel-electric propulsion system in which the main generators provide electricity for all shipboard functions from propulsion motors to hotel systems...

to obtain propulsion from the pressure of sunlight. Unlike conventional spacecraft, which rely on chemical rockets or electric propulsion systems, solar...

"operate, maintain, and repair (organizational and intermediate level) ship propulsion machinery, auxiliary equipment, and outside machinery, such as: steering...

module component of the Orion spacecraft, serving as its primary power and propulsion component until it is discarded at the end of each mission. In January...

destruction; provides the United States Navy with safe and effective nuclear propulsion; and responds to nuclear and radiological emergencies in the United States...

ice around or under the vessel. The external components of the ship's propulsion system (propellers, propeller shafts, etc.) are at greater risk of damage...

propelled by Voith Schneider propulsion, another system where the propulsion system also provides steering. Voith Schneider propulsion uses vertical propellers...

propulsion to achieve her top speed. Diesel engines, augmented by gas turbines, are used to generate electricity for electric motors for propulsion and...

spacecraft that would combine beamed-powered propulsion, electromagnetic propulsion, and nuclear propulsion. The spacecraft would include a light sail,...

2021, as part of the Mars 2020 mission. Built and managed by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, it was launched on July 30, 2020, from Cape Canaveral aboard...

joined with the US Air Force (USAF) to study next-generation upper stage propulsion, formalizing the agencies' joint interests in a new upper stage engine...

type of spacecraft propulsion based on the Project Orion nuclear propulsion system. The Mini-Mag Orion system achieves propulsion by compressing fissile...

thruster (PIT) is a form of ion thruster, used in spacecraft propulsion. It is a plasma propulsion engine using perpendicular electric and magnetic fields...

naval reactors Nuclear marine propulsion Nuclear power in the United States Ragheb, M. (2015). "NUCLEAR MARINE PROPULSION" (PDF). p. 8. Schank, John F...

was an American physicist and aerospace engineer who researched laser propulsion. He was responsible for Mockingbird, a conceptual design for an extremely...

reached an agreement to sell what was by then referred to as "Rocketdyne Propulsion & Power" to Pratt & Whitney of United Technologies Corporation. The transaction...

agricultural equipment, construction equipment, tractors, and marine propulsion. The corporation is listed on the first section of Tokyo Stock Exchange...

achieving orbit yet due to problems with finding a sufficiently efficient propulsion system and discontinued development. Single-stage-to-orbit is much easier...

as those by Alexander the Great, were rudimentary, the advent of new propulsion systems, fuels, and sonar, propelled an increase in submarine technology...

for a gasoline-electric hybrid rail-car propulsion system in early 1889, and for a similar hybrid boat propulsion system in mid 1889. There is no evidence...

reactor of the United States Navy is designed to generate electricity and propulsion for the Virginia-class attack submarines. The name S9G follows the designation...

concrete hulls. Propulsion systems for ships fall into three categories: human propulsion, sailing, and mechanical propulsion. Human propulsion includes rowing...

undergo high changes in velocity (up to 300 meters/second) from a primary propulsion system by using a Hall thruster with iodine as the propellant. It will...

Drawbridge Bascule bridge Forklift Queen Anne Counterbalance Water balance propulsion "counterweight". The Free Dictionary. Farlex. Retrieved 2019-11-05. Woodford...

Niskayuna, New York and dedicated to the support of the U.S. Naval Nuclear Propulsion Program. KAPL was instituted in 1946 under a contract between General...

Elizabeth Jens (born 1984) is an Australian propulsion engineer who works at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Jens is from Torquay, Victoria. She decided...

Interest. "Orbital Propulsion Centre, Lampoldshausen, Germany". space-propulsion.com. "Spacecraft Propulsion Heritage". space-propulsion.com. Harvey, Brian...

recognized in the genus. The Dumbo octopus has a gelatinous body and uses fin propulsion for movement, which also helps it to conserve energy in its extreme deep-sea...

energy stored in rechargeable battery packs, with no secondary source of propulsion (e.g., hydrogen fuel cell, internal combustion engine, etc.). The following...

2014). "Rotating Detonation Wave Propulsion: Experimental Challenges, Modelling, and Engine Concepts". Journal of Propulsion and Power. 30 (5). The American...

July 2023 for $4.7 billion. In 2026, L3Harris agreed to sell the "Space Propulsion and Power Systems" sector of Aerojet Rocketdyne to AE Industrial Partners...

his early years, Nimitz later oversaw the conversion of these vessels' propulsion from gasoline to diesel, and then later was key in acquiring approval...

(1999-06-20). "FRC fusion propulsion system for deep space exploration results from the Star Thrust Experiment (STX)". 35th Joint Propulsion Conference and Exhibit...

Indian space scientist who currently serves as the Director of the Liquid Propulsion Systems Centre (LPSC), a centre of the Indian Space Research Organisation...

spacecraft systems engineer and expert in electric propulsion. Dr. Oh currently works at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) as the NASA Psyche mission chief...

operation and maintenance of watercraft propulsion and ocean systems. It includes but is not limited to power and propulsion plants, machinery, piping, automation...

The Spacecraft Propulsion Research Facility, now known as the In-Space Propulsion Facility, is (according to NASA), the "world’s only facility capable...

MagBeam is the name given to an ion propulsion system for space travel initially proposed by Professor Robert Winglee of the Earth and Space Sciences Department...

Combined steam and gas (COSAG) is a propulsion system for ships using a combination of steam turbines and gas turbines to power the shafts. A gearbox and...

with an onboard nuclear power plant that produces power for the vessel's propulsion system. Although more expensive to operate, nuclear-powered icebreakers...

fire Exocet anti-ship missiles and an agreement on the air-independent propulsion (AIP). On 6 October 2005, India signed a series of contracts for transfer...

distributed electric vertical lift fans with a conventional turbine-powered propulsion system for forward flight. The design is intended to combine helicopter-like...

how much propellant is required for a vehicle of given empty mass and propulsion system. Delta-v is a scalar quantity dependent only on the desired trajectory...

spacecraft electric thrusters (see plasma propulsion), for conceiving and developing new spacecraft propulsion concepts and, more recently, for his work...

Hellmuth Walter's high test peroxide propulsion system, which offered a combination of air-independent propulsion and high submerged speeds. She spent...

The halo drive is a hypothetical method of spacecraft propulsion proposed by David Kipping. It is named for the ring of light that would result from its...

Bevilaqua developed and eventually patented a concept aircraft and a propulsion system called the Shaft-Driven Lift Fan (SDLF), and then turned to Pratt...

sites. Avio operates in: solid-propellant motors for space and tactical propulsion electronic/electrical control and automation systems Avio is Prime Contractor...

Orbital Elements: Numbered Asteroids, ELEMENTS.NUMBR (64 MB)". NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. July 2024. "Data Available from the Minor Planet Center: Discovery...

where he spent seven years working on the Curiosity rover at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. He later worked for four years at Apple as a product designer...

dock in France capable of harbouring ships of that size. Architecture, propulsion options and number of ships were originally to be decided by President...

launch expendable fighter was ever flight-tested with the Walter rocket propulsion system as its primary sustaining thrust system for military-purpose aircraft...

projected high-altitude fighter intended to have both piston and jet propulsion. The Ca.183bis was intended to have a 1,250 hp (932 kW) Daimler-Benz DB...

In September 2025, the company announced it acquired the multi-modal propulsion tech of space company Phase Four as part of a shift of the company into...

Microwave electrothermal thruster, also known as MET, is a propulsion device that converts microwave energy (a type of electromagnetic radiation) into...

world's first ultramax bulk carrier to be operable under wind-assisted propulsion. The vessel is managed by the Greek company Blue Planet Shipping. The...

modification of the combined gas and gas propulsion system employing electric propulsion system for low-speed cruising) propulsion system. A second destroyer was...

replaced with green propellant on Gaganyaan missions, for which the Liquid Propulsion Systems Centre (LPSC) was already working on a monopropellant blended...

Busek Company Incorporated is an American spacecraft propulsion company that builds thrusters, electronics, and various systems for spacecraft. Busek was...

the programme, which was underway, would decide the propulsion system of the ship. Nuclear propulsion was being considered as well. Additionally, the Navy...

missiles under the name of "Gorgon" using different propulsion mechanisms, including ramjet propulsion on the Gorgon IV. The ramjet Gorgon IVs, made by Glenn...

aerospace and defense propulsion company recognized as a global pioneer in high-performance, low-toxicity monopropellant propulsion systems. Founded in...

(NATO reporting name: Yuan class) is a family of three air-independent propulsion (AIP) equipped diesel-electric submarine classes in China's People's Liberation...

advances. Changes from the previous LHD design include gas turbine main propulsion engines, all-electric auxiliaries, an advanced machinery control system...

Steerprop Oy is a Finnish company that produces marine propulsion equipment such as azimuth thrusters and bow thrusters. The company was established in...

cancellation of the programme. Orbital maneuvering was provided by the Joint Propulsion System (Объединенная Двигательная Установка). The initial design of the...

several space contracts and designed part of the liquid rocket engine propulsion systems on the Voyager space probes and provided thruster valves that...

nuclear chain reaction. They are used for commercial electricity, marine propulsion, weapons production and research. Fissile nuclei (primarily uranium-235...

Maneuvering thrusters (bow thrusters and stern thrusters) are transversal propulsion devices built into or mounted to either the bow or stern (front or back...

is a type of airbreathing jet engine that is widely used in aircraft propulsion. The word "turbofan" is a combination of references to the preceding generation...

Italian company that designs and manufactures marine diesel engines and propulsion systems. The company is based in Annone Brianza, Italy. It was founded...

known for his contributions to the development of gas turbines and jet propulsion. Zucrow was born in Kyiv, Ukraine, Russian Empire and immigrated with...

Orbital Elements: Numbered Asteroids, ELEMENTS.NUMBR (64 MB)". NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. July 2024. "Data Available from the Minor Planet Center: Discovery...

A tiltrotor is a rotorcraft that generates lift and propulsion by way of one or more powered rotors (sometimes called proprotors) mounted on rotating shafts...

formed in 2007 to create electric-drive vehicles and related advanced-propulsion technologies. Chrysler announced the formation of ENVI in September 2007...

family of integrated propulsion system that KB KhIMMASH has implemented for the Soyuz since the Soyuz-T. It integrates main propulsion, RCS and attitude...

Syndicated Company based in Rome. Iveco is responsible for the hull and propulsion systems, while Oto Melara is responsible for the weapons and fire control...

electromagnetic suspension (EMS) and electrodynamic suspension (EDS). Propulsion is typically provided by a linear motor. The power needed for levitation...

Tonawanda Engine (now known as Tonawanda Propulsion) is a General Motors engine factory in Buffalo, New York. The plant consists of three facilities totaling...

application markets. Its product catalog includes: Propulsion equipment for numerous types of ships Land propulsion equipment for military vehicles Generating...

is achieved in different groups of fish by a variety of mechanisms of propulsion, most often by wave-like lateral flexions of the fish's body and tail...

Dive Xtras is a manufacturer of diver propulsion vehicles (DPVs) or dive scooters in Mukilteo, Washington, United States. Established in 2003 by Ben McGeever...

move and mix algae culture in the raceway ponds used for algaculture. Propulsion of watercraft (as a paddlewheel) Low head hydro power (as a waterwheel)...

Orbital Elements: Numbered Asteroids, ELEMENTS.NUMBR (64 MB)". NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. July 2024. "Data Available from the Minor Planet Center: Discovery...

"NASA's Perseverance Rover Scientists Find Intriguing Mars Rock". NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL). Retrieved 31 July 2024. This article incorporates text...

the ship was the test-bed for an innovative development in marine steam propulsion, which used reduction gearing not only for an exhaust steam turbine but...

which water jet propulsion is used to create sustained flight where lift and movement are controlled by a person riding on a propulsion device. Competitions...

Harold White's group at NASA's Advanced Propulsion Physics Laboratory reported in the Journal of Propulsion and Power that a test of their own model...

common design for ion thrusters, a highly efficient low-thrust spacecraft propulsion method running on electrical power by using high-voltage grid electrodes...

Nuclear pulse propulsion is a common feature of hard science fiction stories, as the idea offers high thrust and/or high specific impulse drives without...

Isotropic beacon Krasnikov tube Laser broom Laser propulsion Launch loop Lightcraft Liquid core nuclear propulsion Lunarcrete Lunar space elevator MagBeam Magnetic...

Orbital Elements: Numbered Asteroids, ELEMENTS.NUMBR (64 MB)". NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. July 2024. "Data Available from the Minor Planet Center: Discovery...

which advanced it toward the demonstration of hypersonic air breathing propulsion, The Hyper-X Phase I was a NASA Aeronautics and Space Technology Enterprise...

rocket engine systems to be utilized in the design and development of propulsion systems for space mission application". It was a joint effort of the Atomic...

especially V-7, though somewhat larger and powered by pure diesel-electric propulsion systems. Originally called USS V-1 through V-9 (SS-163 through SS-171)...

may be classified by different criteria, such as lift type, aircraft propulsion (if any), usage and others. The history of aviation spans over two millennia...

the propulsion technology currently available. Some of the best candidates for future deep space engine technologies include nuclear fusion propulsion, laser/maser...

Retrieved 12 October 2017. "Planetary Physical Parameters". NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Simon, J.L.; Bretagnon, P.; Chapront, J.; Chapront-Touzé,...

is an aircraft diesel engine developed by Wisconsin-based Engineered Propulsion Systems The Graflight is a liquid-cooled, V-8 with steel pistons and compacted...

with its two parent companies to develop, produce and support integrated propulsion systems for jet engine applications on single-aisle jetliners and business...

an important step in the introduction of the steam turbine to marine propulsion.[citation needed] Precision herringbone gears are more difficult to manufacture...

Paulo Lozano is an aerospace engineer focusing in space propulsion, electrospray thrusters, micro- and nanofabrication, space mission design, small satellite...

Orbital Elements: Numbered Asteroids, ELEMENTS.NUMBR (64 MB)". NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. July 2024. "Data Available from the Minor Planet Center: Discovery...

A resistojet is a method of spacecraft propulsion (electric propulsion) that provides thrust by heating a typically non-reactive fluid. Heating is usually...

uses only chemical propulsion, but a hybrid solution which would use bi-propellant propulsion for orbit raising and electric propulsion for station keeping...

been retired, with a final launch on 9 April 2024. The Interim Cryogenic Propulsion Stage (ICPS) is the upper stage for the initial configuration of NASA's...

17 cm/s, which is twice its peak walking speed, using Marangoni propulsion. Marangoni propulsion by a wetting arthropod is precisely analogous to a soap boat...

technology emerged due to significant advancements in the field of electric propulsion, encompassing motors, batteries, electronic controllers, and propellers...

spacecraft propulsion. WINE developed a method of extracting volatiles from ice, ice-rich regolith, and hydrated soils and uses it as steam propulsion which...

(DRDO). Located in Hyderabad, Telangana, it conducts research on Solid Propulsion Technologies, Composites, Aerospace Mechanisms, NDT Techniques, System...

towpath, negating the need for legging. Legging was also the main form of propulsion used in the man-made adits in Speedwell Cavern until the boats were given...

Otso and Kontio, featuring extensive automation, alternating current propulsion motors with cycloconverter drive, and a sleek hull form perfected in a...

Orbital Elements: Numbered Asteroids, ELEMENTS.NUMBR (64 MB)". NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. July 2024. "Data Available from the Minor Planet Center: Discovery...

submersibles, unmanned underwater vehicles (UUVs), wet subs and diver propulsion vehicles; and amphibious vehicles, which include hovercraft, car boats...

Orbital Elements: Numbered Asteroids, ELEMENTS.NUMBR (64 MB)". NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. July 2024. "Data Available from the Minor Planet Center: Discovery...

Orbital Elements: Numbered Asteroids, ELEMENTS.NUMBR (64 MB)". NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. July 2024. "Data Available from the Minor Planet Center: Discovery...

[citation needed] Wasp's two steam propulsion plants generate a total of 400 tons of steam per hour. The propulsion system develops 70,000 shaft horsepower...

of the weight is borne by the front legs, while the rear legs provide propulsion. The hooves are also important structures, providing support, traction...

shops. Like most modern cruise ships, Viking Vesta has a diesel-electric propulsion system where an integrated power plant provides electricity for all onboard...

anti-submarine capabilities of the Type 052C.[citation needed] The Type 052C propulsion is in the combined diesel or gas (CODOG) arrangement, with two Ukrainian...

likely to be the first Chinese surface warship to feature nuclear marine propulsion. China hoped to complete the carrier by the late 2020s. The US Defense...

the outsweep is to position the arms in such a way as to maximise the propulsion from the insweep that follows. The catch occurs towards the end of the...

by the team, was completed on one propulsion system on 10 December and a short sea trial, using the Port propulsion motor, conducted overnight with Lloyds...

the late 1980s. It was first tested at the Plasmadynamics and Electric Propulsion Laboratory in 1997. In 2002, it was tested as a 3.5 kW unit by the United...

dynamics, finite element method structural analysis, flight dynamics, propulsion modeling, and other related engineering applications.   Proprietary   Open...

served as the director of the Vikram Sarabhai Space Center and the Liquid Propulsion Systems Centre. Sivan was born in Sarakkalvilai, near Nagercoil in Kanyakumari...

Engineering. He is the founder and director of the High-Power Electric Propulsion Laboratory (HPEPL) at Georgia Tech, founded in 2005. The lab aims to advance...

United States Navy. He directed the original development of naval nuclear propulsion and controlled its operations for three decades as director of the U.S...

In Germany, engineers and scientists began building and testing liquid propulsion rockets in the late 1920s. According to Max Valier, two liquid-propellant...

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, the German Aerospace Center and Germany's National Research Center for Geosciences, Potsdam. The Jet Propulsion Laboratory...

electric solar wind sail or an E-sail) is a proposed form of spacecraft propulsion using the dynamic pressure of the solar wind as a source of thrust. It...

propellants (as compared to liquids) does not favor their use as primary propulsion in modern medium-to-large launch vehicles customarily used for commercial...

Propulsion Test Complex is a rocket testing complex which was built in 1965 as a component of the John C. Stennis Space Center. The Rocket Propulsion...

very accurate, at least when chemical propulsion is used. For low thrust systems, typically electrical propulsion systems, this approximation is less accurate...

equipment, GE Transportation Systems also produces large electric motors and propulsion systems for the mining, oil drilling, and wind turbine industries. GE...

aircraft or rocket plane is an aircraft that uses a rocket engine for propulsion, sometimes in addition to airbreathing jet engines. Rocket planes can...

St. Catharines Propulsion Plant is a General Motors Canada engine and manual transmission factory in St. Catharines, Ontario. Opened in 1954 and located...

flights in Earth orbit required retrograde propulsion, which was provided by the large Service Propulsion Engine on the service module. The same engine...

invented the Monte Carlo method of computation, and championed nuclear pulse propulsion. In pure and applied mathematics, he proved a number of theorems and proposed...

cars, listed here ordered by year of introduction. Citroën Alternative propulsion includes the following: Biofuel Citroëns include the Citroën C4 BioFlex...

Germany's V-1 flying bomb. Pulsejet engines are a lightweight form of jet propulsion, but usually have a poor compression ratio, and hence give a low specific...

the other systems used on the operation of the vessel, as well as propulsion. Propulsion is provided by three 20,000-kilowatt (26,800 hp) Azipods, ABB's...

have orbited a dwarf planet. The Dawn mission was managed by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, with spacecraft components contributed by European partners...

2007-12-28. "Part I: Chemical Propulsion and the Dawn of Rocket Science". The Past and Future of Rocket Engine Propulsion. Regents of the University of...

Lake. The Propulsion Directorate was formed through the merger of the aerospace propulsion section at Wright Laboratory and the space propulsion section...

"Voyager – Interstellar Mission". Jet Propulsion Laboratory. NASA. January 25, 2010. "Voyager – Golden Record". Jet Propulsion Laboratory. NASA. Retrieved September...

ratios, geared turbofans, open rotors, hybrid electric or fully electric propulsion; and airframe efficiency with retrofits, better materials and systems...

Donald B. Bickler was an American mechanical engineer at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL). He is best known for developing the rocker-bogie suspension...

compared to the TiME probe would be that TALISE is envisioned with its own propulsion system and would therefore not be limited to simply drifting on the lake...

Schottel system, many brands exist: Steerprop, Wärtsilä, Berg Propulsion, etc. These propulsion systems are used on tugboats designed for tasks such as ship...

Throttleable Liquid Propulsion Demonstrator (TLPD) is a prototype liquid-propellant rocket engine under development by the Polish Lukasiewicz Research...

Engines and Propulsion". sierraspace.com. Sierra Space. Retrieved 5 November 2022. "Spaceflight announces Sherpa tug with electric propulsion". 12 November...

The Chemical Propulsion Information Analysis Center (CPIAC) is one of several United States Department of Defense (DoD) sponsored Information Analysis...

flapping wings, as detailed below. Flapping wing propulsion devices are hydrofoils that produce propulsion by forcing a foil to move up and down in the water...

absorb the Naval Research Laboratory's Project Vanguard, the Army's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), and the Army Ballistic Missile Agency under Wernher...

company specializes in manufacturing environmentally friendly electric propulsion systems and subsystems for spacecraft. SETS is a part of the Noosphere...

Advanced Propulsion Physics Laboratory, a small research group investigating a variety of theories regarding new forms of spacecraft propulsion at NASA's...

acoustic stealth, new combat systems, and an option for air-independent propulsion (AIP). The new vessels are the fourth generation of the Kilo submarine...

used by the United States Navy to provide electricity generation and propulsion on warships. The S8G designation stands for: S = Submarine platform 8...

RD-263 engines form a propulsion module RD-264 (GRAU index: 15D119). For the R-36M KB Yuzhnoye only ordered the first stage propulsion to Energomash, instead...

NASA Breakthrough Propulsion Physics Program (1996–2002) was a professional scientific study examining advanced spacecraft propulsion systems. Sleeper:...

The United States Space Nuclear Propulsion Office (SNPO) was a US government agency created in 1961 in response to NASA Marshall Space Flight Center's...

Hellmuth Walter's high test peroxide propulsion system, which offered a combination of air-independent propulsion and high submerged speeds. She spent...

nuclear propulsion was not an option: the British government rejected nuclear propulsion as too costly. Before cancellation, the carrier's propulsion system...

1928 – February 26, 2023) was an American human computer at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) and one of the first female scientists employed there...

was an attempt to design a space propulsion device. ELF was a candidate in NASA's NextSTEP advanced electric propulsion program, along with the X-3 Nested-Channel...

Combined diesel or gas (CODOG) is a type of propulsion system for ships that need a maximum speed that is considerably faster than their cruise speed,...

by providing vectors to assigned targets. The ships carried over the propulsion plant of the Farragut class, fitted into a longer hull designed with a...

crisis triggered the Space Race. It was managed by the Space Nuclear Propulsion Office (SNPO), a joint agency of the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC), and...

class, with the fleet submarines converted under the Greater Underwater Propulsion Power (GUPPY) program, had much higher submerged performance than their...

spaceflight, an orbital maneuver (otherwise known as a burn) is the use of propulsion systems to change the orbit of a spacecraft. For spacecraft far from Earth...

postal address), is the U.S. government's civilian rocketry and spacecraft propulsion research center. As the largest NASA center, MSFC's first mission was...

Lampoldshausen is known as Aerospace Village by the Institute of space propulsion of the German Aerospace Center (DLR) for research and hot firing test...

vehicle based on the AMC Hornet that were converted by the Electric Fuel Propulsion Company (EFP) of Ferndale, Michigan. The zero-emission Electrosport concept...

issued by the Air Ministry for a suitable aircraft to test the novel jet propulsion designs that Frank Whittle had been developing during the 1930s. Gloster...

Generation Adaptive Propulsion (NGAP) program, with the General Electric XA102 and Pratt & Whitney XA103 competing for the propulsion system. The DARPA...

enlarged Bismarck-class battleships with 40.6 cm (16 in) guns and diesel propulsion. The "H-41" design improved the "H-39" ship with still larger main guns...

called an "alternative energy vehicle" or "new energy vehicle" as its propulsion actually relies on electricity rather than motor fuel. Vehicle engines...

Propulsion Competition". UK RACE TO SPACE. Retrieved 21 March 2024. "Bath Rocket Team on LinkedIn: #ukrace2space #rocketscience #rockets #propulsion #team...

with an unprecedented number of heavy-calibre guns, and steam turbine propulsion. As dreadnoughts became a crucial symbol of national power, the arrival...

fuel to a spacecraft to power another propulsion system. Another theoretical use for this concept of propulsion can be found in space fountains, a system...

widely recognized distinction is between motorized wheelchairs, where propulsion is provided by batteries and electric motors, and manual wheelchairs,...

the propulsion turbines and ship service turbine generators (SSTGs), which generate the submarine's electrical power. The high-speed propulsion turbines...

Propulsion Cryogenics & Advanced Development (PCAD), was a NASA rocket engine development project from 2005 to 2010 that included methalox engines (liquid...

Orbital Elements: Numbered Asteroids, ELEMENTS.NUMBR (64 MB)". NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. July 2024. "Data Available from the Minor Planet Center: Discovery...

commercial missions. The company is known for commercializing solar thermal propulsion (STP) technology and for its Supernova and Starburst spacecraft platforms...

Digital Solid State Propulsion (DSSP) is an aerospace company developing microthruster propulsion technology for small satellites. DSSP's technology utilizes...

additions and modifications designed to make it more suitable for marine propulsion, industrial power generation, and marine power generation use. These include...

guns could place satellites into Earth's orbit (although after-launch propulsion of the satellite would be necessary to achieve a stable orbit), and could...

gas' cleaner burning properties, the use of natural gas in merchant ship propulsion plants is becoming an option for companies in order to comply with IMO...

the class were cancelled. Radiance-class ships have been plagued with propulsion issues, specifically impacting multiple cruises in September 2023 on Radiance...

manufactured by Tyto Robotics to test drone and UAV components such as propulsion systems, propellers, and Electronic Speed Controllers (ESCs). The company...

Retrieved December 4, 2017. "Voyager - The Interstellar Mission". Jet Propulsion Laboratory. NASA. "Voyager 1 has left the Solar System. Will we ever overtake...

In marine propulsion, a variable-pitch propeller is a type of propeller with blades that can be rotated around their long axis to change the blade pitch...

explosions and demolished motors. The complexities involved in building propulsion systems that can safely handle nitrous oxide fuel blend monopropellants...

A vacuum arc thruster (VAT) is a form of electric spacecraft propulsion. It uses a vacuum arc discharge, across an insulator, between two electrodes to...

Dual mode propulsion systems combine the high efficiency of bipropellant rockets with the reliability and simplicity of monopropellant rockets. Dual mode...

may swim by undulating their bodies, as in many fish and worms; by jet propulsion, as in cephalopods such as squid; or by moving flippers like wings, as...

often categorised informally, such as by vehicle type, surface type or propulsion method. Examples of categories within a discipline are formula racing...

used by the United States Navy to provide electricity generation and propulsion on warships. The S5W designation stands for: S = Submarine platform 5...

peer-reviewed articles related to aerospace systems, flight mechanics, propulsion, aerodynamics, spacecraft design, and related disciplines. Acta Astronautica...

(2025 UC11)". Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Retrieved 18 February 2025. "JPL Small-Body Database Browser: (2025 BB2)". Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Retrieved...

A pulse detonation engine (PDE) is a type of propulsion system that uses detonation waves to combust a fuel and oxidizer mixture. The engine is pulsed...

known as a pressor beam or repulsor beam. Gravity impulse and gravity propulsion beams are traditionally areas of research from fringe physics that coincide...

VLEO will remain there until either their propulsion runs out, or they are resupplied with fuel. Once propulsion ends, vehicles made with demisable materials...

fuel consumption of the plant is decreased. Propulsion is provided by two "Mermaid" azimuth pod-propulsion units from Kamewa and Cegelec (now Alstom)....

be limited by liquid jet fuel. In May 1946, the Nuclear Energy for the Propulsion of Aircraft (NEPA) project was started by the United States Army Air Forces...

now targeted for 2028. District of Columbia will have an electric drive propulsion system that uses an electric motor to turn the propeller of a vessel....

SR-71 Propulsion System P&W J58 Engine (JT11D-20). Retrieved January 18, 2020. Campbell, David H (November 1974). "F-12 Series Aircraft Propulsion System...

bones of the pelvis. The forelimbs were likely the primary source of propulsion when swimming, but the iliac blade morphology and the robust pubic process...

mission failed). Deep Space 1 was the first NASA spacecraft to use ion propulsion rather than the traditional chemical-powered rockets. The purpose of Deep...

greatly renovated. Instead of the COGOG propulsion system of the Hatsuyuki class, this class has the COGAG propulsion system with four Kawasaki-Rolls-Royce...

research and is regarded as one of the founding figures of European rocket propulsion science. Barrère served as president of the International Astronautical...

fly to and enter orbit around Alpha Centauri B powered by nuclear pulse propulsion. Developed by the US Naval Academy and NASA, from 1987 to 1988, Longshot...

intact. The service module was unpressurized and contained a main service propulsion engine and hypergolic propellant to enter and leave lunar orbit, a reaction...

Orbital Elements: Numbered Asteroids, ELEMENTS.NUMBR (64 MB)". NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. July 2024. "Data Available from the Minor Planet Center: Discovery...

of a mere 50 years. One propulsion method for a crewed spacecraft could be a fusion microexplosion nuclear pulse propulsion system (like that proposed...

Orbital Elements: Numbered Asteroids, ELEMENTS.NUMBR (64 MB)". NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. July 2024. "Data Available from the Minor Planet Center: Discovery...

for bomb pumped lasers have been proposed. Laser propulsion is an alternative method of propulsion ideal for launching objects into orbit, as this method...

for the Investigation of Reactive Engines and Reactive Flight or Jet Propulsion Study Group; Russian: Группа изучения реактивного движения, Gruppa izucheniya...

watercraft are used for maritime transport. Types can be distinguished by propulsion, size or cargo type. Recreational or educational craft still use wind...

common with other contemporary submarines, they feature air-independent propulsion. The class has its roots in the late 1990s, and Spain ordered the submarines...

hydrogen. As of 2019[update] hydrogen fuel cells are not suitable for propulsion in large long-distance ships but are being considered as a range-extender...

Orbital Elements: Numbered Asteroids, ELEMENTS.NUMBR (64 MB)". NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. July 2024. "Data Available from the Minor Planet Center: Discovery...

USS Nautilus's power plant, a conscious decision was made to design a propulsion system to commercial design standards with no connection to military programs...

The Voith Schneider Propeller (VSP) is a specialized marine propulsion system (MPS) manufactured by the Voith Group based on a cyclorotor design. It is...

to be avoided. Magnetic nozzles have been proposed for some types of propulsion (for example, Variable Specific Impulse Magnetoplasma Rocket, VASIMR)...

A motorboat or powerboat is a boat whose propulsion is exclusively provided by a motor, not by wind power (e.g. sail or power kite) or human power. A motorboat...

with rubber and related chemicals, and later with rocket and missile propulsion systems. Its name is a portmanteau of the Greek words for sulfur (Greek:...

horsepower (104 MW) for each pair of the ship's four shafts – two per propulsion plant – plus approximately 100 MW of electricity.[citation needed] A1B...

payload similar to Mariners 6 and 7, but because of the need for a larger propulsion system to control the spacecraft in Martian orbit, it weighed more than...

high relevance technological issues related to aeroengines, power and propulsion systems. He has conducted work in compressor aerodynamics, aeroengine...

hybrid electrical system. Rolls-Royce designed a hybrid diesel-electric propulsion system, known as the combined diesel-electric and diesel (CODLAD) system...

technology programs including hybrid propulsion, electric propulsion, low-thrust chemical propulsion, and other advanced propulsion concepts (e.g., fusion, antimatter)...

Design Trade-offs for Future Advanced Passenger Transport (PDF). Space Propulsion 2012. ST28-5. Bordeaux: DLR-SART. Archived (PDF) from the original on...

The Kalam-series engines are a set of five solid-propulsion carbon-composite rocket engines being developed by Skyroot Aerospace. The engines are named...

for propulsion, power generation or auxiliary equipment such as bow thrusters. Most recently, Volvo Penta has been the number one choice of propulsion and...

United States Navy and was delivered to the Navy in 1955. Her nuclear propulsion allowed her to remain submerged far longer than diesel-electric submarines...

Spacecraft propulsion Spacecraft may or may not have a propulsion subsystem, depending on whether or not the mission profile calls for propulsion. The Swift...

years. This 1999 study by Jet Propulsion Laboratory is noted for its circular 400-meter-diameter solar sail as a propulsion method (1 g/m2) combined with...

"Project Sunshine". Later that year, two 20.5-megawatt ABB Azipod XO propulsion units were ordered for that ship. On 29 February 2012 the company announced...

variants for anti-ship, and land attack use. Some versions have a second propulsion stage that initiates a supersonic sprint in the terminal approach to the...

Philippine Sea. Introduced in 1975, the class was designed with gas-turbine propulsion, a flight deck and hangar for up to two medium-lift helicopters, all-digital...

but is jettisoned before reentry. The service module, responsible for propulsion and power, is also discarded prior to reentry. For added safety and aerodynamics...

used by the United States Navy to provide electricity generation and propulsion on warships. The S2W reactor was a naval nuclear reactor developed by...

higher speeds. Turboprops have bypass ratios of 50–100, although the propulsion airflow is less clearly defined for propellers than for fans. The propeller...

follow around a Lagrangian point of a three-body system with minimal propulsion. Lyapunov orbits around a Lagrangian point are curved paths that lie entirely...

15, 1915 – May 26, 2007) was an American aeronautical engineer, rocket propulsion expert, and Caltech professor, who pioneered the first American satellites...

force when no additional propulsion is present, and then decreases relatively proportionally to further increases in propulsion. In experienced competitive...

first merchant ship to be equipped with Azipod, an electric azimuthing propulsion unit developed in Finland in the late 1980s. She was also the first non-Soviet...

there is not one universally used propulsion system: monopropellant, bipropellant, ion propulsion, etc. Each propulsion system generates thrust in different...

The Aero-propulsion Systems Test Facility, located at Arnold Engineering Development Complex is a unique national facility designed to test aircraft propulsion...

the Mark 54 LHT.[citation needed] The torpedo's stored chemical energy propulsion system uses a small tank of sulfur hexafluoride gas, which is sprayed...

formerly employed at the U.S. Air Force and NASA, where he worked at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Johnson was born in Mobile, Alabama on October 6, 1949. His...

or nitrous oxide as oxidizers. They often use blow-down, pressure-fed propulsion systems to pressurize propellants for the sake of simplicity, but some...

M. (September 2005). "Joint Strike Fighter Dual-Cycle Propulsion System". Journal of Propulsion and Power. 21 (5): 778–783. doi:10.2514/1.15228. Eden...

Orbital Elements: Numbered Asteroids, ELEMENTS.NUMBR (64 MB)". NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. July 2024. "Data Available from the Minor Planet Center: Discovery...

equipped with a combined diesel-electric or gas (CODLOG) propulsion system. The propulsion system of the ROKN ships have a gas turbine direct drive,...

refer to : Arctic Environmental Protection Strategy Advanced Electric Propulsion System, Hall Effect thruster by Aerojet Rocketdyne for NASA. Aadhaar Enabled...

(born 15 June 1960) is a Chinese engineer in the fields of aerospace propulsion technology. He is an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering...

The Greater Underwater Propulsion Power Program (GUPPY) was initiated by the United States Navy after World War II to improve the submerged speed, maneuverability...

of 750 kW, providing DC output for propulsion in the event of failure or non-availability of the main propulsion system (emergency "get you home"). "Securing...

between the extremely cold LH2 and the comparatively warmer LOX. The main propulsion system consists of one or two RL10 engines made by Aerojet Rocketdyne...

its electric field. Thus the only suitable propulsion method for the project was thermonuclear pulse propulsion. Daedalus would be propelled by a fusion...