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

A prototype electric plasma rocket engine capable of significantly increasing thrust and efficiency has been unveiled by ...

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.

Engineers developed an engine prototype which could reach unprecedented speeds, cutting down interplanetary travel time.

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 ...

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 ...

GA-EMS’ design isn’t the only one being considered, though. NASA and DARPA announced in 2023 that they were working on a nuclear thermal rocket engine, with a planned launch demonstration as ...

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