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

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

Robert Zubrin’s Nuclear Salt Water Rocket (NSWR) design is a rocket that uses known physics ... for the liquid traveling through the reaction chamber, the site of maximum fission release could then be ...

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 ...

Among nuclear rockets, those using nuclear fission, particularly Project Orion ... thrust can be massive (e.g., 700 MN per engine in speculative designs, yielding >2 m/s² for large ships). Beamed Ion: ...

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

Credit: Pulsar Fusion These rockets, developed by Pulsar Fusion, would use an innovative nuclear fusion engine, the Direct Fusion Drive ... atomic nuclei to release colossal energy. On Earth, fission ...