NASA and DARPA announced in 2023 that they were working on a nuclear thermal rocket engine, with a planned launch demonstration as early as 2027. The big drive behind these new propulsion ...

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

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 ... The Artemis I launch last year left many people ...

The rocket was designed so that the liquid flow rate ... Environment: Plan flight tests to avoid harming Earth’s environment, like keeping nuclear materials contained during launch and reentry. This ...

They discuss the history, current developments, and future potential of nuclear electric and ... Finally, did you know you can launch your own SpaceX rocket? Model rocket maker Estes' stunning ...

SEOUL--North Korea marked the delivery of 250 nuclear-capable missile launchers to frontline military units at a ceremony where leader Kim Jong Un called for a ceaseless expansion of his military ...

Iran Launches Rocket With Heaviest-ever Payload Into Space Amid Heightened Concern Over Nuclear Program Liquid fuel enables a missile to have greater propulsive thrust, power and control.

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

On Episode 152 of This Week In Space, Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik host Dr. Robert O'Brien, Director of the Universities Space Research Association's Center for Space Nuclear Research, for a ...