U.K. start-up Pulsar Fusion has unveiled plans to build a fleet of reusable nuclear fusion-powered rockets, known as Sunbirds ...

The Sunbird concept is for the fusion-powered ‘tugs’ to be permanently based in space, able to dock with spacecraft and ...

Artist impression of a nuclear fission powered rocket ... is considered one more step on the road to nuclear-powered rocket engines. Such designs have long been suggested as a more efficient ...

Robert Zubrin's Nuclear Salt Water Rocket (NSWR) design is a rocket that uses known physics and engineering . There are ...

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

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

Today, nuclear fission is largely produced with fuel rods ... and NASA is revisiting the idea of nuclear-powered rockets.

Artist impression of a nuclear fission powered rocket ... announced in 2023 that they were working on a nuclear thermal rocket engine, with a planned launch demonstration as early as 2027.

The Sunbird nuclear fusion rocket concept has the potential to more than halve the time to travel to Mars and cut travel time ...

Pulsar Fusion has a history of groundbreaking achievements in propulsion, including its 2023 UK Space Agency-funded work on integrated nuclear fission power systems for electric propulsion ...

Pulsar Fusion has a history of groundbreaking achievements in propulsion, including its 2023 UK Space Agency-funded work on integrated nuclear fission power systems for electric propulsion, developed ...