I’ve grown up with rockets that burn chemical fuel, but NASA’s next big leap in propulsion could make those engines look as ...

Nuclear Thermal Propulsion (NTP) is the preferred propulsion technology for manned missions throughout the solar system. The state-of-the-art NTP cycle is based on solid core Nuclear Engine for Rocket ...

NASA plans to send crewed missions to Mars over the next decade – but the 140 million-mile (225 million-kilometer) journey to the red planet could take several months to years round trip. This ...

General Atomics Electromagnetic Systems (GA-EMS) just hit a massive milestone that could alter the future of space exploration. The company has successfully trialed a nuclear fuel that could one day ...

New details of the Trump administration’s plans for NASA, released Friday, revealed the White House’s desire to end the development of an experimental nuclear thermal rocket engine that could have ...

This relatively long transit time is a result of the use of traditional chemical rocket fuel. An alternative technology to the chemically propelled rockets the agency develops now is called nuclear ...

The best, in fact, the only, candidate for this is the Nuclear Thermal Propulsion (NTP) system or nuclear rocket. First conceived of in 1945, this is a rocket that replaces burning chemical fuel with ...

WASHINGTON, DC, October 27, 2023 (ENS) – U.S. defense and space agencies are moving quickly toward the world’s first in-orbit demonstration of a nuclear thermal rocket, NTR. The U.S. Defense Advanced ...

NASA and the U.S. military plan to launch a nuclear-powered spacecraft to Earth orbit in late 2025 or early 2026. Artist concept of Demonstration for Rocket to Agile Cislunar Operations (DRACO) ...

Humanity has lived in the space age for decades, but virtually every probe, rocket, and satellite shaping this era has relied on chemical propulsion. As scientists and engineers eye more distant ...

Current chemical propulsion systems necessitate prolonged transit times for crewed Mars missions, driving the exploration of Nuclear Thermal Propulsion (NTP) as a more efficient alternative to ...