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 ...
US military officials believe Russia and China are aggressively testing new offensive space capabilities, pointing to a ...
If we achieve advanced nuclear, antimatter propulsion or other advance propulsion it would be possible to achieve near ...
Try to fathom the power of 1 million nuclear power plants. Now, imagine there is a way to pack the equivalent of that into ...
The Sunbird nuclear fusion rocket concept has the potential to more than halve the time to travel to Mars and cut travel time ...
While setting off a nuclear bomb may conjure the image of mass casualty events as seen historically, their potential use in space is likely to be designed to create of an electromagnetic pulse (EMP).
Narrator: Imagine if we detonated a nuclear bomb in space? Actually ... and created a burst of energy called an electromagnetic pulse, or EMP, that expanded for over 1,000 kilometers.
Beyond mathematics and physics, Dyson would also express great interest in space exploration — with ... on the famous Project Orion, which used nuclear bombs for propulsion.