A DRACO ground test would need to capture plume exhaust fully to ensure no radioactive materials are released to the ...

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 ...

SAN DIEGO, CA / / January 20, 2025 / General Atomics Electromagnetic Systems (GA-EMS) announced today that it has successfully executed several significant high-impact tests at NASA's Marshall Space ...

China's state-owned main space contractor tested five different rocket engines on one day last week in preparation for future ...

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 ...

In the ’60s, rocket engine design and manufacturing company Rocketdyne had tried to make the J-2T Aerospike, a toroidal aerospike concept intended as an improvement over the Rocketdyne J-2 engine for ...

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 ...

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 ...