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

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

Once in space, robots would connect the nuclear electric propulsion system's radiator panels, through which a liquid metal coolant, such as a sodium-potassium alloy, would flow. While this is ...

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

One of the biggest goals in space exploration is getting humans to the distant planet, Mars. However, reaching Mars involves not just one but myriad engineering challenges, including the long ...

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

Shipping nuclear propulsion start-up CORE POWER, which in November of last year announced a deal with Westinghouse for design and development of floating nuclear power plants (FNPPs), has hired an ...

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

The PULSAR research project, led by Belgian engineering firm Tractebel, has unveiled the conceptual design of a plutonium-238 ...

AI-driven Hall thruster technology from KAIST will be demonstrated on the K-HERO CubeSat, advancing high-efficiency electric ...