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Engineers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab make a breakthrough in rotor technology (arstechnica.com)

2026-05-08 | get Rotor Technology Kit → | tags: nasa, jet propulsion laboratory, ingenuity helicopter

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NASA's Curiosity Mars Rover Was Stuck in a Rock: Watch It Free Itself (cnet.com)

2026-05-07 | by See Full Bio | get Mars Rover Model Kit → | tags: nasa, curiosity rover, mars

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NASA Fires Up Futuristic Plasma Thruster Designed to Take Us to Mars (futurism.com)

2026-05-02 | by Victor Tangermann | get Ion Propulsion Space Engine → | tags: nasa, plasma thruster, jet propulsion lab

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New Lithium-Plasma Engine Passes Key Mars Propulsion Test (slashdot.org)

2026-05-02 | get Ion Propulsion System Kit → | tags: lithium-plasma, nasa, psyche spacecraft

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NASA’s Lithium-Fed Nuclear Thruster Flares to Life in First of Its Kind Test (gizmodo.com)

2026-05-01 | get NASA Lithium-Propulsion Kit → | tags: nasa, lithium, nuclear thruster

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There’s a Hidden Shortcut to Mars, Scientific Paper Finds (futurism.com)

2026-04-30 | by Victor Tangermann | get Mars Exploration Model Kit → | tags: mars propulsion, asteroid 2001 ca21, acta astronautica

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Light-Propelled ‘Metajets’ Could Enable 20-Year Journey to Alpha Centauri, Study Suggests (gizmodo.com)

2026-04-28 | get Solar Sail Model Kit → | tags: metajets, alpha centauri, optical propulsion

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Scientists Say They’ve Figured Out a Way to Get to Alpha Centauri in Just 20 Years (futurism.com)

2026-04-25 | by Victor Tangermann | get Solar Sail Spacecraft → | tags: alpha centauri, laser propulsion, texas a&m university

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Scientists Say They’ve Tested a Way to Get to Alpha Centauri in Just 20 Years (futurism.com)

2026-04-25 | by Victor Tangermann | get Solar Sail Spacecraft → | tags: alpha centauri, laser propulsion, texas a&m university

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Astrobotic’s Detonation Engine Fires 4,000 Pounds of Thrust in Wild Test (gizmodo.com)

2026-04-24 | get Rocket Engine Model Kit → | tags: astrobotic, detonation engine, rocket propulsion

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NASA Shuts Down Voyager 1 Instrument as Its Life Force Fades (futurism.com)

2026-04-20 | by Frank Landymore | get Voyager 1 Model Replica → | tags: voyager 1, nasa, jet propulsion laboratory

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Voyager 1 gets emergency instrument shutdown to solve escalating power crisis and give it ‘about a year of breathing room’ — interstellar spacecraft's nuclear power source is dying, leading to intensifying countermeasures (tomshardware.com)

2026-04-20 | by Jowi Morales | get Voyager 1 Solar Power Kit → | tags: voyager 1, jet propulsion laboratory, radioisotope thermoelectric generator

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NASA’s Mars Rover Comes Across Formation That Looks Like the Scales of a Massive Cosmic Reptile (futurism.com)

2026-04-18 | by Sharon Adarlo | get Mars Rover Model Kit → | tags: nasa, curiosity rover, jet propulsion laboratory

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NASA Wants to Put Nuclear Reactors on the Moon (wired.com)

2026-04-15 | by Jorge Garay | get NASA Lunar Reactor Model → | tags: nasa, lunar surface, nuclear reactors

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This founder helped build SpaceX’s most powerful rocket engine. Now he’s building a ‘fighter jet for orbit.’ (techcrunch.com)

2026-04-09 | by Tim Fernholz | get SpaceX Rocket Engine Model → | tags: spacex, portal space systems, solar thermal propulsion

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This founder helped build SpaceX’s most powerful rocket engine. Now he’s building a ‘fighter jet for orbit’ (techcrunch.com)

2026-04-09 | by Tim Fernholz | get Rocket Engine Model Kit → | tags: spacex, portal space systems, solar thermal propulsion

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Wild Experiment Suggests Lasers and Graphene Could Propel Future Spacecraft (gizmodo.com)

2026-04-08 | get Graphene Spacecraft Material → | tags: lasers, graphene, spacecraft

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Researchers 3D print robot the size of a single-cell organism — devices move and navigate even without a ‘brain,’ uses their shape and the environment to get going (tomshardware.com)

2026-04-04 | by Jowi Morales | get 3D Printed Micro-Robot Kit → | tags: microrobots, 3d printing, leiden university

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Voyager 1 runs on 69 KB of memory and an 8-track tape recorder (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-03-29 | by Benjamin Larweh | get Voyager 1 Model Replica → | tags: voyager 1, nasa jet propulsion laboratory, interstellar space

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Startup Successfully Ignites World’s First Fusion Rocket (gizmodo.com)

2026-03-26 | get Fusion Rocket Model Kit → | tags: pulsar fusion, sunbird, nuclear fusion

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Here is NASA's plan for nuking Gateway and sending it to Mars (arstechnica.com)

2026-03-25 | tags: nasa, gateway, nuclear propulsion

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NASA Announces Nuclear Mission to Mars by 2028 (futurism.com)

2026-03-24 | by Victor Tangermann | get NASA Mars Rover Model → | tags: nasa, space reactor‑1, ingenuity

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Arc expands into electric commercial and defense boats with $50M raise (techcrunch.com)

2026-03-19 | by Sean O'Kane | get Electric Boat Propulsion Kit → | tags: arc boat company, electric propulsion, defense contractors

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In space, no one can hear you kernel panic (2020) (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-03-13 | get Linux Kernel T-Shirt → | tags: nasa, spacecraft, software architecture

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In space, no one can hear you kernel panic (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-03-13 | get Linux in Space Mug → | tags: nasa, spacecraft, kernel panic

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SpaceX Veteran Says He’s Figured Out How to Make Rocket Fuel From Water (futurism.com)

2026-02-15 | by Victor Tangermann | get Hydrogen → | tags: chemical, fuel, oxygen

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This Startup Thinks It Can Make Rocket Fuel From Water. Stop Laughing (wired.com)

2026-02-09 | by Noah Shachtman | get Hydrogen → | tags: mars, oxygen, propulsion

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AI is tranforming spacecraft propulsion—and may lead to nuclear-powered rockets (feeds.feedburner.com)

2025-11-28 | get Nuclear Reactor → | tags: agencies, agencies launch, ai playing

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New Nuclear Rocket Concept Could Slash Mars Travel Time in Half (gizmodo.com)

2025-10-31 | by Passant Rabie | get science reference book → | tags: cntr, engine, engines

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ISRO successfully conducts hot tests of Gaganyaan propulsion system (news.ycombinator.com)

2025-10-31 | by Authors | get How to Win Friends book → | tags: gaganyaan, hot, isro