WASHINGTON — A test firing of the first-stage motor of NASA’s planned Ares 1 crew launch vehicle will take place no earlier than Sept. 10 as NASA and its contractor, Alliant Techsystems (ATK), ...

On Sunday, the University of Minnesota Duluth Bulldog Rocketry Team will be testing a motor they built. The test will take place in the back field of the farm at the UMD Research and Field Studies ...

Northrop Grumman on Thursday conducted a static fire test of the latest solid rocket motor designed and developed in 12 ...

The AEGIS SGRâ„¢ Conductive MicroFiberâ„¢ shaft grounding brush improves the reliability of HVACR systems by extending motor life. By safely channeling harmful shaft current away from the motor ...

Kratos’ new Zeus 1 rocket motor completes a successful static test at Aerojet Rocketdyne’s Camden, Arkansas facility is available at https://www.globenewswire.com ...

Electrostatic motors are now common in MEMS applications, but researchers at the University of Wisconsin and spinoff C-Motive Technologies have brought macroscale electrostatic motors back. [via ...

Northrop Grumman Corporation along with NASA and Lockheed Martin successfully performed a ground firing test of the abort motor for NASA’s Orion spacecraft Launch Abort System (LAS) at Northrop ...

The technology inside Accutron watches was so revolutionary when it launched in 1960 that it didn’t merely reflect the ongoing Space Race, it drove it forward. Accutron was first introduced by ...

Wisconsin company C-Motive is betting on electrostatic drive rather than magnetism for its proposed industrial motors. “The rotors and stators are made from standard PCBs and have an optimised set of ...

It is pretty damn cool. I wonder if that may be the way to go for e.g. space. Anyone knows any more about such motors? I can't really find much online except for old patent applications and zillion ...

This solid-state thyristor (SCR) switch circuit is perhaps the simplest means of reversing a 3 phase motor. “Static” is a catch-all term that essentially means without moving (mechanical) contacts ...