Forward-looking: Scientists have long envisioned nuclear electric propulsion as a transformative technology for unlocking the potential of solar system exploration. Now, two companies making steady ...
Mars has always felt like a distant neighbor, reachable only after a long, risky cruise through deep space. Now engineers inside NASA are sketching a very different future, one where a nuclear powered ...
Nuclear rockets are moving from Cold War concept to near-term hardware, and the shift could reshape how quickly and safely humans cross the solar system. By pairing compact reactors with efficient ...
Rendering of VASIMR in flight around Mars. Credit: Ad Astra Rocket Company Propulsion technologies are the key to exploring the outer solar system, and many organizations have been working on novel ...
New Mexico – December 10, 2024 – Desert Works Propulsion, leading provider of electric propulsion (EP) expertise as a service, proudly announces the launch of DW-1, its state-of-the-art vacuum test ...
Scientists are exploring the possibilities of antimatter propulsion as they try to achieve interstellar travel. While conventional rockets provide high thrust, they struggle with low efficiency.
Ad Astra's VX-200SS™ high-power VASIMR ® Prototype SpaceNukes' ground-tested Kilopower Space Reactor Partnership: The Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between Ad Astra and SpaceNukes outlines a ...
Key opportunities in the satellite propulsion system market include the rising demand for electric and hybrid propulsion ...
(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) (THE CONVERSATION) Every year, companies and space agencies launch hundreds of rockets ...
On Episode 152 of This Week In Space, Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik host Dr. Robert O'Brien, Director of the Universities Space Research Association's Center for Space Nuclear Research, for a fascinating ...
Critical to one of the world’s largest solar array assemblies, the solar panels will enable NASA’s Gateway lunar space station to be the most powerful electric propulsion spacecraft ever flown.
L3Harris Technologies is selling a 60% stake in its space propulsion business to AE Industrial Partners for $845 million, ...