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 ...

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), ...

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 ...

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 ...

Instructables member Joehan has published details of a DIY electrostatic motor or “capacitor motor” that has been created using 3D printing and is capable of providing 2 Watt HV power. The DIY ...

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 ...