NASA and its partners have successfully tested a nuclear thermal propulsion (NTP) fuel that could revolutionize deep-space ...

Russian scientists claim to have developed a plasma electric rocket engine that could enable travel to Mars in just one to ...

Engineers developed an engine prototype which could reach unprecedented speeds, cutting down interplanetary travel time.

Rosatom scientists have developed a laboratory prototype for a plasma electro-reactive rocket engine based on a magnetic ...

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

The nuclear engines had already passed every test on ... In the late 1950s Dyson worked on Project Orion, which aimed to build a manned spacecraft that could go to Mars and the moons of Saturn.

NASA and General Atomics tested the fuel by exposing it to temperatures up to 3,000 Kelvin (4,940 Fahrenheit or 2,727 Celsius ...

A research team presents an AI assessor for Hall-effect ion thrusters, the engines of satellites and space probes.

Scientists in the Nuclear Engine for Rocket Vehicle Applications ... DRACO’s current spacecraft bus design is based on Lockheed Martin’s Osiris-Rex spacecraft, which visited and collected ...

Up until now, the main way of propelling spacecraft has been through chemical ... gas and kept there for 20 minutes – about what a nuclear engine would have to endure during a boost maneuver.

Roscosmos has uploaded to its Facebook page a video showing the image of a nuclear-powered spacecraft of the future MOSCOW, November 13. /TASS/. Roscosmos has uploaded to its Facebook page a video ...

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