Interesting Engineering on MSN9h
Nuclear-powered spacecraft with 11,000-pound payload planned by US space firms
The goal of enabling extended deep-space exploration is driving NASA, space agencies, and private players to explore nuclear ...
The Conversation on MSN2d
Inside radioisotope generators, the ‘nuclear batteries’ that power faraway spacecraft
How do we power missions in the outer reaches of our solar system and beyond? The solution, developed in the '60s, can last ...
Nuclear Engineering International1d
Pulsar unveils nuclear fusion rocket concept
The Sunbird concept is for the fusion-powered ‘tugs’ to be permanently based in space, able to dock with spacecraft and ...
Space.com5d
This Week In Space podcast: Episode 152 — Atomic Rockets II: Nuclear Electric Boogaloo
On Episode 152 of This Week In Space, Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik host Dr. Robert O'Brien, Director of the Universities Space ...
World Nuclear News9d
Pulsar Fusion unveils nuclear fusion rocket concept for space travel
The Sunbird nuclear fusion rocket concept has the potential to more than halve the time to travel to Mars and cut travel time ...
Houston Chronicle6d
Radioisotope generators − inside the ‘nuclear batteries’ that power faraway spacecraft
RTGs are essentially nuclear-powered batteries ... the power of RTGs quite like the Voyager missions. NASA launched the twin spacecraft Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 in 1977 to take a tour of the ...