NASA and its partners have successfully tested a nuclear thermal propulsion (NTP) fuel that could revolutionize deep-space ...

Also, triple the ISP does not cut the travel time by one third. There is no discussion by supporters of ... The Demonstration Rocket for Agile Cislunar Operations (DRACO) program will test a ...

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

Is nuclear propulsion the future of space travel? NTP was first theorized in the 1940s. Instead of burning chemical propellant, a rocket would use a nuclear reactor to heat propellant – most ...

General Atomics Electromagnetic Systems (GA-EMS) just hit a massive milestone that could alter the future of space exploration. The company has successfully trialed a nuclear fuel that could one day ...

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 ...

Rocket technology predates space exploration by almost a thousand years, and although today's computerized multi-ton launch vehicles are a lot more capable than 11th-century gunpowder-assisted ...

General Atomics Electromagnetic Systems (GA-EMS) has successfully tested the nuclear ... rockets. To be fair, that's nothing to sneer at. Chemical engines put the first satellite into space ...

One option NASA is exploring is nuclear electric ... and autonomously in space. "By doing that, we eliminate trying to fit the whole system into one rocket fairing," said Amanda Stark, a heat ...

Even without recovering New Glenn’s reusable booster, Blue Origin has joined the ranks of commercial companies with rockets able to launch into orbit. Sending a nuclear fission reactor into ...

The risk of rogue rocket debris and other man-made space junk colliding with planes is a growing challenge that’s only going to get worse as interplanetary traffic and commercial airline flights ...