USNC-Tech and Blue Origin win a contract for nuclear thermal propulsion design by Alan Boyle on July 13, 2021 at 10:58 am July 13, 2021 at 11:19 am Share 1k Tweet Share Reddit Email ...

Last month, through a presolicitation, the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency announced its intent to have a flyable nuclear thermal propulsion system ready for a demonstration in 2025.

According to GA-EMS president Scott Forney, the company’s latest nuclear fuel tests show that their fuel can survive without being eroded or degraded by a thermal propulsion reactor when it’s ...

Nuclear-powered spaceships for fast trips to Mars may now be one step closer to reality. NASA and the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) have teamed up to fund three design concepts for reactors that ...

There have been full scale nuclear thermal rocket engines built and tested on the ground since the 1960s. The US had the NERVA project. The ... DARPA announced its goal of conducting an in-space ...

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has picked three big space companies for the first phase of a larger project to test nuclear propulsion above low Earth orbit by 2025.

"NASA will work with our long-term partner, DARPA, to develop and demonstrate advanced nuclear thermal propulsion technology as soon as 2027," NASA Administrator Bill Nelson said.

WASHINGTON — The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency selected Blue Origin and Lockheed Martin to develop competing spacecraft concepts for a demonstration of nuclear thermal propulsion ...

Seattle-based USNC-Tech has developed a concept for a safer and more reliable Nuclear Thermal Propulsion system that could help realize the goal reducing Earth-Mars travel time to just three months.

Nuclear thermal propulsion has long been a goal of spaceflight advocates, dating back to the days of German rocket scientist Wernher von Braun and NASA's Project NERVA.

Space agencies and private companies have set a bold target to send humans to the distant red planet, Mars. Nuclear Thermal Propulsion (NTP) is actively being explored for faster long-distance ...

The Pentagon is working on a “nuclear thermal propulsion” engine with the goal to be able to drive satellites around in space, The Daily Beast reports.This seems to be a multi-motivated effort ...