RealClearScience

Making Nuclear Space Propulsion a Reality

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 ...
Yahoo

Nuclear rockets could travel to Mars in half the time − but designing the reactors that would power them isn’t easy

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 ...
Phys.org

A new nuclear rocket technology takes another step forward

Nuclear thermal propulsion (NTP) has stood as a promising potential alternative propulsion technology for decades. Chemical rockets have begun to reach their theoretical maximum efficiency, and their ...
TechSpot

Nuclear-electric rocket propulsion could cut Mars round-trips down to a few months

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 ...
Inverse

The One Technological Issue That Is Holding Nuclear Rockets Back

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 ...
NextBigFuture

Nuclear Wave Rotor Propulsion Could Get Ten Times Chemical Rocket Speeds

The state-of-the-art NTP cycle is based on solid core Nuclear Engine for Rocket Vehicle Application (NERVA) class technology that is envisioned to provide a specific impulse (Isp) of 900 seconds ...
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Nuclear rocket breakthrough: US scientists build molten uranium engine for faster missions

Researchers have reported new progress in developing a liquid uranium-fueled rocket engine, a Centrifugal Nuclear Thermal Rocket (CNTR). “The Centrifugal Nuclear Thermal Rocket (CNTR) is a Nuclear ...
SpaceNews

VX-200 VASIMR Prototype Increases High Power Performance, Demonstrates Efficient Constant Power Throttling

[Houston, TX For immediate release] – Ad Astra Rocket Company reports two important advances with its VX-200 high power VASIMR(R) engine prototype: 1) a significant increase in its high power ...
SpaceNews

Tsangs Group Announces Investment in Ad Astra Rocket Company

Tsangs Group is pleased to announce that we have invested in Ad Astra Rocket Company (“Ad Astra”), known for the project of Variable Specific Impulse Magnetoplasma Rocket (“VASIMR®”) space engine.
Astronomy

Nuclear rockets could travel to Mars in half the time − but designing the reactors that would power them isn’t easy

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 ...
The Conversation

Nuclear rockets could travel to Mars in half the time − but designing the reactors that would power them isn’t easy

Dan Kotlyar receives funding from Idaho National Laboratory and BWXT Inc. for research related to nuclear thermal propulsion. This relatively long transit time is a result of the use of traditional ...