This lunar-bound launcher is straight out of a sci-fi movie. Chinese scientists are planning to build an $18 billion magnetic space device to fling resources back to Earth in hopes of fixing the ...

China has claimed to have made progress on the electronics and power systems for aircraft carrier magnetic launchers. A Chinese land-based version of an aircraft carrier magnetic launcher already ...

A 9000 meter long magnetic catapult was proposed in 2003 by Warren D Smith, mathematician at Temple University. It was designed to launch 5 meter long, 1 meter diameter projectiles at 2250 gees of ...

The south polar region is one of the Moon's most resource-dense areas. CHINA has tabled plans for a magnetic Moon launcher that can catapult pricey lunar materials back to Earth. It is just one of ...

European researchers developing a magnetic heat shield that could augment or replace the traditional ablative materials hope to make a test flight in the next decade. Under development by EADS Astrium ...

CHINA has tabled plans for a magnetic Moon launcher that can catapult pricey lunar materials back to Earth. It is just one of China’s grand plans for its sprawling habitation base at the lunar south ...