Electric propulsion is being increasingly used on space missions and could ultimately replace thrusters using chemical ...

"Chemical rockets that we use today, even with the extra speed boost from flying by planets, or from swinging by the sun for ...

General Atomic's new nuclear fuel was subjected to the maximum heat of a reactor for 20 minutes in the latest tests.

NASA has achieved a critical milestone in space exploration with the successful testing of advanced nuclear thermal ...

Since its foundation in 1959, the DLR Institute of Space Propulsion has been the most important European research and testing facility for liquid-chemical rocket engines. Our mission is to make the ...

Applications are invited for a fully funded PhD/MASc studentship (full time) in the area of advanced chemical rocket propulsion for next generation launch vehicles. We are looking for one or more ...

A conceptual laser thermal propulsion space mission to Mars ... would be launched out of the atmosphere on a conventional chemical rocket, whereupon it would separate and reveal a large inflatable ...

How was the rocket that launched the Curiosity Rover to Mars different from the one that took Neil Armstrong to the moon? Join Dr. Larry de Quay of NASA as he explains the physics and chemical ...

But these rockets must carry oxygen with them into space, which can weigh them down. Unlike chemical propulsion systems, nuclear thermal propulsion systems rely on nuclear fission reactions to ...

The best, in fact, the only, candidate for this is the Nuclear Thermal Propulsion (NTP) system or nuclear rocket. First conceived of in 1945, this is a rocket that replaces burning chemical fuel ...