The RPS uses two Stirling engines to convert the heat generated by the decay of Plutonium-238 (Pu-238) into electricity.

Jeffrey Alan Benjamin, 62, was sentenced to a year and a day in federal prison after pleading guilty to causing SCANA, a publicly-traded company, to keep false records in connection with the failed ...

Jamie Foxx recently joined Vanity Fair for a video interview in which he looked back at a handful of his most iconic acting ...

Nuclear propulsion could be the future of space travel and NASA and General Atomics just brought us one step closer.

China's Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak (EAST), referred to as the "artificial sun," has achieved a new milestone in nuclear fusion research. The reactor maintained ...

In other news, the UK is investing more in nuclear fission and fusion; the first underground injection CCS permit in ...

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SpaceX's 7th Starship flight didn't achieve all it set out to For the first time, SpaceX flew Starship with a reused Raptor rocket engine. The Super Heavy booster runs on 33 Raptor engines.

“It successfully separated from the Super Heavy booster, but during that ascent phase, a couple of the engines dropped out, and then shortly thereafter, we lost communication with the vehicle ...

Scientists in the Nuclear Engine for Rocket Vehicle Applications program conducted six ground tests of radioactive reactors in open air between 1964 and 1969, “which we could never get approved ...

The more than 400-foot rocket, powered by 33 Raptor engines, appeared to lift off successfully at 4:37 p.m. CT from SpaceX's launchpad at its Starbase facility near Brownsville, Texas. But minutes ...