AI gives a thumbs up to Brett Bellmore innovative modifications to Robert Zubrin’s Nuclear Salt Water Rocket (NSWR ... (an oriented long-chain polyethylene), hanging behind the rocket. The engines ...

Nuclear Salt Water Rocket (NSWR ... heating propellant (laser thermal) or powering ion thrusters (beamed ion drives). Performance: Laser Thermal: Exhaust velocity ~10–20 km/s; thrust can be massive (e ...

The contest’s rules were fairly simple: A team had to build an AI system that could categorize images sourced from ... These techniques are like tuning an engine in a car to make it go faster ...

On Wednesday 26 February, a thermal imaging ... the first images from the LTM should arrive back on earth within three days. Since the spacecraft has a relatively small engine, its planned ...

Until Athena’s cameras, as well as the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, can return images, the lander’s orientation ... that the company had Austin-based Rocket Coffee ATX send over some ...

The Soviet Union also researched the technology, which yielded the RD-0410, a nuclear thermal rocket engine developed from 1965 through the 1980s. These reactors were intended to become part of a ...

This atmospheric motion ends up blurring or smearing the images captured by ground-based ... Another type of thruster, MRE-1, or mono-propellant rocket engine, is employed for maintaining the ...

Among the investors was André-Hubert Roussel, former CEO of ArianeGroup, who oversaw the development of Europe’s only ...

The Sunbird nuclear fusion rocket concept has the potential to more than halve the time to travel to Mars and cut travel time ...

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

They discuss the history, current developments, and future potential of nuclear electric and nuclear thermal propulsion ... you can launch your own SpaceX rocket? Model rocket maker Estes ...