Within the next 15 years, NASA, China, and SpaceX plan to send the first crewed missions to Mars. In all three cases, these missions are meant to culminate in the creation of surface habitats that ...

HRL Laboratories, LLC has demonstrated proof-of-concept on a unique approach to achieve a silent pumping system that replaces traditional mechanical moving parts with an electric current and a ...

Looking back through the archives, we actually haven’t seen much in the way of homebrew magnetohydrodynamic drives (MHDs) — which is somewhat surprising, as the core concept isn’t nearly as ...

Magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) flow control represents a promising frontier in mitigating the severe thermal and aerodynamic challenges inherent to hypersonic reentry. By applying magnetic fields to ...