The US Navy's carrier fleet is superior to the Chinese, though China's new Fujian aircraft carrier is formidable and shows ...

Aircraft carriers, designed to transport, launch, and land aircraft, have maintained a general design since their inception.

The AEPS is a solar electric propulsion system that uses xenon as its propellant, much like existing ion engines. Where it differs is in the power output, which should allow it to work as the ...

Definition: Electromagnetic waves or EM waves are waves that are created as a result of vibrations between an electric field and a magnetic field. In other words, EM waves are composed of oscillating ...

Winged projectile achieves Mach 5, reaching altitude of 15km in test but was sent off course by rotation speeds, ...

There are seven types of electromagnetic (EM) waves, which make up the electromagnetic spectrum. Electromagnetic waves are transverse waves, and travel at the speed of light. Different types of ...

Propulsion pods are not a new product, but a new configuration of traditional marine systems and components. As yet, studies have not shown whether pods are more efficient than conventional shaft ...

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NASA's mission to the metal-rich asteroid 16 Psyche has fired up its ion engines and is now cruising across the solar system ...

Chen, Zhizhang Wang, Chao-Fu and Hoefer, Wolfgang J. R. 2022. A Unified View of Computational Electromagnetics. IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques ...