Scientists at Rosatom have unveiled a plasma electric rocket engine that is claimed to be capable of propelling spacecraft to ...

NASA and General Atomics tested the fuel by exposing it to temperatures up to 3,000 Kelvin (4,940 Fahrenheit or 2,727 Celsius ...

Limitless Space Institute compares the travel time of spacecraft propelled by nuclear power to that of imaginative fusion propulsion. Credit: Limitless Space Institute ...

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Ryan Weed, Helicity Space LLC in Pasadena, California, proposes a constellation of spacecraft powered by the Helicity Drive, a compact and scalable fusion propulsion system, that could enable rapid, ...

"Chemical rockets that we use today, even with the extra speed boost from flying by planets, or from swinging by the sun for ...

Engine maintenance is forecast to capture 52% of Latin America’s commercial MRO demand over next decade. Credit: Lindsay Bjerregaard/Aviation Week Network Commercial MRO demand in Latin America ...

Scientists have confirmed the space around us appears to be growing faster than physics can explain, based off precise measurements of a galaxy cluster over 300 million light-years away. For the ...

The tests showed the fuel can withstand the harsh conditions of a nuclear thermal propulsion reactor. In other words, it has the capability to one day power a nuclear rocket that could fire humans ...

If such an engine could be made, it would allow for fast shuttles between low Earth ... candidate for this is the Nuclear Thermal Propulsion (NTP) system or nuclear rocket. First conceived of ...