NASA and General Atomics tested the fuel by exposing it to temperatures up to 3,000 Kelvin (4,940 Fahrenheit or 2,727 Celsius ...

Russia's State Atomic Energy Corporation, Rosatom, recently developed a new spacecraft engine with impressive specifications. It far surpasses the capabilities of traditional chemical rocket engines, ...

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 ...

Nuclear propulsion could be the future of space travel and NASA and General Atomics just brought us one step closer.

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 ...

NASA is working on a groundbreaking nuclear electric propulsion system that could dramatically speed up trips to Mars. The ...

“I will direct our military to begin construction of the great Iron Dome missile defence shield, which will be made all in ...

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 ...