Pulsar Fusion's ambitious goal is to construct the largest and most practical nuclear fusion rocket engine to date. Their 8-meter fusion chamber, set to ignite in 2027, aims to generate ...
A DRACO ground test would need to capture plume exhaust fully to ensure no radioactive materials are released to the ...
Dale Thomas, together with UAH, has a study contract with Nasa to design a space rocket featuring a nuclear thermal engine. He thinks nuclear thermal electric is the closest new engine technology ...
A similar but more far-off idea is the fission fragment rocket. This type of vehicle would eject nuclear fission products from a reactor engine using magnetic fields. This could theoretically ...
“This is an honest-to-goodness nuclear rocket engine.” Once upon a time, NASA proposed to send a dozen astronauts to Mars in two spaceships, each powered by three of these engines. Marshall ...
China successfully conducted five rocket engine tests in a single day, signalling the implementation of major aerospace ...
Five engineers and two others died when a rocket engine exploded at a test range on the White Sea on 8 August. Defence experts think it was part of a nuclear-powered cruise missile. "We will ...
Loosening up the design is key, because as Stark mentioned, previous ideas called for fitting the entire nuclear electric radiator system under a rocket fairing, or nose cone, which covers and ...
In 1960-1980 a nuclear rocket engine was developed and tested at the Semipalatinsk test site. According to the ministry, as a result of the battlegroup’s Center actions, "the adversary lost up ...
According to the head of the heads the Keldysh Research Center, which now runs the project to build Russia’s first nuclear propulsion engine, current rocket engines, powered either by various ...
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is partnering with a Pentagon research agency to develop a nuclear-powered rocket engine in preparation for sending astronauts to Mars. NASA ...