Powering spacecraft with solar energy may not seem like a challenge, given how intense the sun's light can feel on Earth.
On Episode 152 of This Week In Space, Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik host Dr. Robert O'Brien, Director of the Universities Space ...
There are some potentially valid criticism about the Nuclear Salt Water Rocket (NSWR). The criticisms highlight real physical ...
Nuclear pulse propulsion is a technology that would work. It was being developed in the 1960s but it was stopped because of ...
Spacecraft near the Earth use large solar panels ... RTGs are essentially nuclear-powered batteries. But unlike the AAA batteries in your TV remote, RTGs can provide power for decades while ...
The Sunbird nuclear fusion rocket concept has the potential to more than halve the time to travel to Mars and cut travel time to Pluto to about four years, the UK's Pulsar Fusion says. The concept ...
US military officials believe Russia and China are aggressively testing new offensive space capabilities, pointing to a ...
Robert Zubrin, the planet’s leading strategist for landing humans on Mars, predicts SpaceX’s Starship will win the race to ...
Director of the Universities Space Research Association's Center for Space Nuclear Research, for a fascinating deep dive into nuclear propulsion technology for space exploration. They discuss the ...