NASA is developing a groundbreaking spacecraft concept designed to revolutionize Mars travel. The ambitious plan involves ...
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 ...
BWX Technologies secures $2.1B to supply advanced nuclear reactors for the US Navy’s next-generation submarines and ...
NASA and General Atomics successfully tested nuclear fuel for faster, more efficient space travel, pushing Mars missions ...
aims to take a critical element of nuclear electric propulsion, its heat dissipation system, and divide it into smaller components that can be assembled robotically and autonomously in space. This is ...
While this latest test doesn’t make nuclear-powered rocket engines viable just yet, it’s an important step on the journey.
BWX Technologies has been awarded contracts totaling approximately $2.1 billion from the U.S. Naval Nuclear Propulsion Program. This substantial investment aims to manufacture reactor components ...