NASA has selected a team led by Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corporation of Boulder, Colo., for a technology demonstration of a high performance “green” propellant alternative to the highly toxic ...

When a malfunctioning U.S. spy satellite threatened to fall out of orbit in February 2008, military officials took the unusual step of blasting the spacecraft to bits with a well-aimed missile. Most ...

The Ball Aerospace-led Green Propellant Infusion Mission, funded by NASA, has flown for 13 months using an alternative to hydrazine. Credit: Ball Aerospace WASHINGTON — Ball Aerospace says it has ...

SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy is sending a bunch of new technologies to orbit SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy is sending a bunch of new technologies to orbit On Monday, SpaceX is set to launch the third flight of its ...

Purdue students (from left) Ben Tackett, Siddharth Tripathi, Jordan Nykiel, Brian McGuire, and Andrew Melgar, are taking a Zero-Gravity Flight Experiment course, creating an experiment to study a new ...

Milestone progress is being made in readying NASA's Green Propellant Infusion Mission (GPIM) for launch in 2016, a smallsat designed to test the unique attributes of a high-performance, non-toxic, ...

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BOULDER, Colo. — A spacecraft that will test the unique attributes of a high-performance, nontoxic, "green" fuel on orbit is being prepped for launch in 2017. NASA's Green Propellant Infusion Mission ...

NASA has put out the call for greener propellant fuel for use on the spacecraft of the future. Though it does not appear that NASA has stipulated that alternative propellants must match the ...

The final frontier will soon get a dose of green. Aerojet-Rocketdyne, based in Rancho Cordova, has been awarded $1.2 million by the Defense Department to develop “green” propellant to replace toxic ...

BOSTON, Feb. 4, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Koura (previously known as Mexichem Fluor), a pioneer in the development of next generation propellants, today announced FDA approval to proceed to clinical trials ...