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

The U.S. Navy awarded Lockheed Martin a $383 million contract to develop the Trident II D5 Life Extension 2 (D5LE2) ballistic missile system.

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 ...

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

As the world marks the International Day of Clean Energy in 2025, global momentum behind nuclear energy continues to build, with the clean power source set to generate record levels of electricity in ...

Rocket programs that depend upon completely new technology and that technology has to be scaled in size (millions of newtons of thrust or clusters of 250,000 newton engines) and mass produced by the ...

That's 4,220 degree Fahrenheit (2,326°C), roughly equivalent to the heat a nuclear rocket engine would reach during a boost maneuver. The tests, carried out at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight ...

General Atomics Electromagnetic Systems (GA-EMS) has successfully tested the nuclear fuel ... through chemical rockets. To be fair, that's nothing to sneer at. Chemical engines put the first ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.