On Episode 152 of This Week In Space, Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik host Dr. Robert O'Brien, Director of the Universities Space ...

Nuclear pulse propulsion is a technology that would work. It was being developed in the 1960s but it was stopped because of ...

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The Sunbird Migratory Transfer Vehicle is designed to cut mission times to Mars by half while offering a reusable, ...

Russia’s new plasma engine could reach Mars in just 30 days. Russia's new plasma rocket engine is engineered to cut the ...

If we achieve advanced nuclear, antimatter propulsion or other advance propulsion it would be possible to achieve near constant acceleration. This would ...

The design, which has been in the works in some fashion for the past few decades, uses a nuclear reactor to provide energy to the rocket. Nuclear Thermal and Nuclear Electric Propulsion (NTP/NEP ...

One promising option is Nuclear Thermal Propulsion (NTP). "NTP systems work by pumping a liquid propellant, most likely hydrogen, through a reactor core," the US Office of Nuclear Energy explains.

A mechanical engineering student at the University of Central Florida, Cherokee Nation citizen Devin Brizuela was sworn into ...

Pulsar Fusion in Bletchley has brought space propulsion technology out of stealth with the unveiling of Sunbird, a nuclear ...

The company’s Erwin, Tennessee, site is the other. In October 2023, BWXT announced a contract from the Naval Nuclear Propulsion Program worth about $300 million. That work is performed in Tennessee ...