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

NASA and DARPA are developing a demonstration nuclear-powered rocket that could shorten travel time to Mars and make space ...

BWX Technologies, Inc's new facility in Lynchburg has been built with support from local and state tax grants and will be ...

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

BWX Technologies (BWXT) officially opened its Innovation Campus at its Mount Athos facility, propelling the advancement of ...

A British company says they developed a secret nuclear rocket that could cut in half the mission times to Mars. Pulsar Fusion ...

The BWXT Innovation Campus features laboratories where the Advanced Technologies team is designing, building and testing advanced nuclear systems for NASA, the Department of Energy, the Department of ...

U.K. start-up Pulsar Fusion has unveiled plans to build a fleet of reusable nuclear fusion-powered rockets, known as Sunbirds ...

Nuclear rockets are the future of space propulsion, and while fission propulsion is rapidly developing, most believe fusion propulsion is still a ways off. However, a new U.K.-based company is ...

developers of clean space propulsion systems and services through fusion, today announced the unveiling of Sunbird, a nuclear fusion rocket concept developed in complete secrecy over the past decade.

and future potential of nuclear electric and nuclear thermal propulsion systems, which could revolutionize our ability to explore Mars and beyond — both robotically and with human crews.