A new test of nuclear propellant fuel under space-like conditions has been hailed as a success by NASA and General Atomics ...

Russia's State Atomic Energy Corporation, Rosatom, recently developed a new spacecraft engine with impressive specifications.

Rosatom scientists have announced the development of a plasma electric rocket engine that they claim could send spacecraft to ...

A laboratory prototype of a plasma electric rocket engine based on a magnetic plasma accelerator has been produced by Rosatom ...

General Atomics Electromagnetic Systems (GA-EMS) has successfully tested the nuclear fuel that may one ... through innovations peripheral to the rocket engine itself. There are alternatives ...

Liquid-fuelled rocket engine design has largely followed a simple template since the development of the German V-2 rocket in the middle of World War 2. Propellant and oxidizer are mixed in a ...

Since initiating the program’s design phase two years ago ... Scientists in the Nuclear Engine for Rocket Vehicle Applications program conducted six ground tests of radioactive reactors in ...

Rockets propelled by nuclear reactors could slash the time ... operate two-to-three times more efficiently than current rocket engines. Breaking space news, the latest updates on rocket launches ...

Loosening up the design is key, because as Stark mentioned, previous ideas called for fitting the entire nuclear electric radiator system under a rocket fairing, or nose cone, which covers and ...

That's 4,220 degree Fahrenheit (2,326°C), roughly equivalent to the heat a nuclear rocket engine would reach during a boost maneuver. The tests, carried out at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight ...

In 2023, NASA and Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) announced they're working on a nuclear thermal rocket engine, so that NASA can send a crewed spacecraft to Mars. The agency ...