NASA and its partners have successfully tested a nuclear thermal propulsion (NTP) fuel that could revolutionize deep-space ...

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

NASA is testing futuristic, extreme fuel that will transport humans to Mars. They are testing nuclear fuel for future moon ...

The tests, carried out at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center at Redstone Arsenal, Alabama, were deemed a success. Is nuclear propulsion the future of space travel? NTP was first theorized in ...

NASA and General Atomics successfully tested nuclear fuel for faster, more efficient space travel, pushing Mars missions ...

A laboratory prototype of a plasma electric rocket engine based on a magnetic plasma accelerator has been produced by Rosatom ...

COLORADO SPRINGS and LOS ANGELES—Long-term U.S. goals to develop technology for in-space nuclear propulsion have taken ... tests at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama.

A prototype electric plasma rocket engine capable of significantly increasing thrust and efficiency has been unveiled by ...

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If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. General Atomics and NASA have successfully tested a new type of nuclear thermal ...

Electric propulsion is being increasingly used on space missions and could ultimately ... where the sunlight is fainter, nuclear power in the form of radioisotope thermoelectric generators ...

SpaceX on Friday morning launched 23 Starlink satellites from Space Launch Complex at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in ...