nuclear rockets
An Extremely Lightweight Fission Rocket Could Reach the Solar Gravitational Lens in 15 Years
Novel propulsion ideas for moving around space seem like they're a dime a dozen recently. Besides the typical argument between…
Rolls-Royce Reveals a Nuclear Reactor That Could Provide Power on the Moon
Rolls-Royce has released a teaser about the "micro-reactor" they are developing in partnership with the UK Space Agency.
NASA and DARPA Will be Testing a Nuclear Rocket in Space
NASA and DARPA have teamed up to create a nuclear thermal rocket that could perform an orbital flight test by…
New Nuclear Rocket Design to Send Missions to Mars in Just 45 Days
NASA's Advanced Innovation Concepts (NAIC) program selected a new type of bimodal nuclear propulsion that could allow for missions to…
New Calculations Show That an Interstellar Bussard Ramjet Drive Would Need a Magnetic Field Stretching 150 Million Kilometres
A new analysis of the fabled Bussard Ramjet shows that the spacecraft would need an impossibly big magnetic field to…
NASA is Building a Nuclear Reactor to Power Lunar and Martian Exploration!
NASA and the U.S. Dept. of Energy have come together to solicit design proposals for a nuclear reactor that will…
White House Encourages NASA to Work on Space-Based Nuclear Power and Propulsion Systems
In what's likely to be one of the last space policy initiatives of his administration, President Donald Trump has issued…
NASA Reignites Program for Nuclear Thermal Rockets
NASA recently announced a three-year partnership with BWXT to develop nuclear thermal rockets for future mission to Mars and beyond!