NASA and General Atomics tested the fuel by exposing it to temperatures up to 3,000 Kelvin (4,940 Fahrenheit or 2,727 Celsius ...

NASA and its partners have successfully tested a nuclear thermal propulsion (NTP) fuel that could revolutionize deep-space ...

There will also need to be larger hydrogen tanks. NASA, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and Lockheed Martin (prime contractor) are design, build, and testing of NASA and DARPA’s ...

NASA is developing a groundbreaking spacecraft concept designed to revolutionize Mars travel. The ambitious plan involves ...

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

In other words, it has the capability to one day power a nuclear rocket that could fire humans into deep space at unprecedented speeds. NASA and other organizations have long looked at nuclear ...

While the 1950s was a time of truly unusual and fast-paced innovation in military aerospace, one of the more bizarre projects ...

Rocket technology predates space exploration by almost a thousand years, and although today's computerized multi-ton launch vehicles are a lot more capable than 11th-century gunpowder-assisted ...

“The Government’s announcement today puts nuclear powered rocket boosters behind our drive to build the next generation of nuclear power plants. “Planning bureaucracy and overly complex ...

Doubling or even tripling the power of a chemical rocket would allow mankind to harvest other planets. If tripke you could achieve speeds od 100,000 moh or more making a Mars flight far less risky ...

LEADERS in West Cumbria have welcomed news from the Prime Minister that government will 'rip up rules to fire-up nuclear power' with the reform ...