On Episode 152 of This Week In Space, Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik host Dr. Robert O'Brien, Director of the Universities Space ...
High-altitude Nuclear Effects ARA will highlight its advances in high-altitude nuclear effects at the 40th Space Symposium in ...
Nuclear pulse propulsion is a technology that would work. It was being developed in the 1960s but it was stopped because of ...
The militarization of space has reached a critical juncture, with intelligence reports suggesting that Russia may be developing a nuclear-capable satellite. If confirmed, this development could have ...
US military officials believe Russia and China are aggressively testing new offensive space capabilities, pointing to a ...
The Sunbird nuclear fusion rocket concept has the potential to more than halve the time to travel to Mars and cut travel time ...
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.
Try to fathom the power of 1 million nuclear power plants. Now, imagine there is a way to pack the equivalent of that into ...
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.
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).