Nuclear pulse propulsion is a technology that would work. It was being developed in the 1960s but it was stopped because of ...

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

British startup Pulsar Fusion has announced the development and testing of new reusable missiles with engines powered by nuclear fusion ... to Pluto in 4 years instead of 9.5 (the record set by NASA’s ...

The engine operates in a pulse-periodic mode ... Russia could be decades ahead of competitors in advanced propulsion systems. Currently, NASA’s Psyche mission and several OneWeb satellites ...

As humanity’s ambitions to send humans to Mars grow, the challenge of getting there in a timely and safe manner becomes more apparent. The journey to the Red Planet is a significant hurdle, with seven ...

For more than sixty-five years, humans have sent payloads and exploration crews to space using vehicles powered by reaction engines ... These include Nuclear Pulse Propulsion (NPP), a method ...

The Tie series of starfighters get their name, at least in part, from their propulsion system ... [Image Courtesy of NASA] So far so good but…. Ion thrust engines are practical only in ...

On Episode 152 of This Week In Space, Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik host Dr. Robert O'Brien, Director of the Universities Space ...