While prototypes of water-powered rocket thrusters and engines have been developed before, and a few have succeeded in launching CubeSats, water has not yet been used as a propellant on a large scale.

The rockets are expensive, whether they use liquid or solid fuel, so the West German Ministry of Transport asked jet-propulsion experts to evaluate hot-water rockets, a prewar German idea that ...

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

Nuclear Salt Water Rocket (NSWR) is a rocket that uses known physics and engineering and there are versions that could reach 7-8% of light speed. The use low grade uranium enrichment for a more near ...

If all goes according to plan, the Athena lander will touch down near the moon's south pole on or around March 6.