Fusion has long been the propulsion end-goal for interplanetary travel, and a U.K.-based company thinks on its way to ...

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

AI gives a thumbs up to Brett Bellmore innovative modifications to Robert Zubrin’s Nuclear Salt Water Rocket (NSWR). Switching from water to polyethene and ...

There are some potentially valid criticism about the Nuclear Salt Water Rocket (NSWR). The criticisms highlight real ... be a misnomer—Zubrin could be describing a rapid, sustained fission process ...

The machine learning simulations will guide the rocket engine’s design. In 2022, Pulsar secured funding from the UK Space Agency to develop a nuclear-fission based propulsion system ...

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 ...

Using nuclear fusion to power a fleet of reusable rockets, nicknamed Sunbirds ... Nuclear fusion involves merging light atomic nuclei to release colossal energy. On Earth, fission reactors, such as ...

Israel's nuclear weapons may have started as a deterrent against another Holocaust, but they have now morphed into an ...

NASA and DARPA have partnered to develop a demonstration nuclear-powered rocket that could speed travel to Mars and make ...