Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) Nuclear electric propulsion technology, which uses a nuclear reactor to generate electricity for ionizing and accelerating gaseous propellants, could ...

Two United States based firms have entered into a partnership to advance high-power nuclear electric propulsion technology for faster space travel. Ad Astra Rocket Company (Ad Astra) and The Space ...

However, this type of electric propulsion system requires a lot of energy, so the company has opted for a unique tie-up for a power plant that could solve that problem—a nuclear reactor.

A laboratory prototype of a plasma electric rocket engine based on a magnetic plasma accelerator has been produced by Rosatom ...

Meanwhile, nuclear propulsion is literally the only way that a world power can project military might, as diesel-electric submarines and conventionally powered aircraft carriers lack the range ...

A research team presents an AI assessor for Hall-effect ion thrusters, the engines of satellites and space probes.

Shipping nuclear propulsion start-up CORE POWER, which in November of last year announced a deal with Westinghouse for design ...

A research team from KAIST Nuclear and Quantum Engineering presents an AI assesser for Hall-effect ion thrusters, the engines ...

flight vehicle power engineering, and nuclear reactor engineering. At the HIT Plasma Propulsion Lab (HPPL), headed by Daren Yu, SESE researchers have been investigating electric propulsion ...

A Hall thruster is a high-efficiency propulsion device using plasma that is used for various difficult space missions, such ...