NASA’s NERVA program, for example, was cut in 1973, despite promising results. It was cut due to budget cutbacks and a call to focus on the Space ... his nuclear electric propulsion engine ...

Imagine a world where energy is limitless, clean, and safe—without the environmental toll of fossil fuels or the risks of nuclear meltdowns. This is the promise of nuclear fusion, a process that ...

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

Pulsar Fusion has a history of groundbreaking achievements in propulsion, including its 2023 UK Space Agency-funded work on integrated nuclear fission power systems for electric propulsion ...

The Sunbird concept is for the fusion-powered ‘tugs’ to be permanently based in space, able to dock with spacecraft and propel them at high speed over vast distances. Pulsar Fusion says it foresees a ...

Pulsar Fusion has a history of groundbreaking achievements in propulsion, including its 2023 UK Space Agency-funded work on integrated nuclear fission power systems for electric propulsion, developed ...

Powering spacecraft with solar energy may not seem ... RTGs are essentially nuclear-powered batteries. But unlike the AAA batteries in your TV remote, RTGs can provide power for decades while ...

A British company says they developed a secret nuclear rocket that could cut ... but two of the largest space propulsion testing chambers in the UK, if not all of Europe. "Pulsar is now an ...