A new test of nuclear propellant fuel under space-like conditions has been hailed as a success by NASA and General Atomics ...

Rosatom scientists have developed a laboratory prototype for a plasma electro-reactive rocket engine based on a magnetic ...

Russia's State Atomic Energy Corporation, Rosatom, recently developed a new spacecraft engine with impressive specifications.

Fission technology is well established in power generation and nuclear-powered submarines, and its application to drive or power a rocket ... engine mass requirements. Before engineers can design ...

General Atomics Electromagnetic Systems (GA-EMS) has successfully tested the nuclear fuel that may one ... through innovations peripheral to the rocket engine itself. There are alternatives ...

Since initiating the program’s design phase two years ago ... Scientists in the Nuclear Engine for Rocket Vehicle Applications program conducted six ground tests of radioactive reactors in ...

Liquid-fuelled rocket engine design has largely followed a simple template since the development of the German V-2 rocket in the middle of World War 2. Propellant and oxidizer are mixed in a ...

That's 4,220 degree Fahrenheit (2,326°C), roughly equivalent to the heat a nuclear rocket engine would reach during a boost maneuver. The tests, carried out at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight ...

Rockets propelled by nuclear reactors could slash the time ... operate two-to-three times more efficiently than current rocket engines. Breaking space news, the latest updates on rocket launches ...

A laboratory prototype of a plasma electric rocket engine based on a magnetic plasma accelerator has been produced by Rosatom ...

According to NASA's estimates, spacecraft using existing chemical rocket engines will take a minimum of six to seven months to reach Mars. Going faster would require a new propulsion method. The best ...