The company has successfully trialed a nuclear fuel that could one day drastically cut down the travel time to Mars and beyond. The tests showed the fuel can withstand the harsh conditions of a ...

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

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

Nuclear propulsion could be the future of space travel and NASA and General Atomics just brought us one step closer.

NASA is working on a groundbreaking nuclear electric propulsion system that could dramatically speed up trips to Mars. The ...

The trip to Mars and back is not one for the ... previous ideas called for fitting the entire nuclear electric radiator system under a rocket fairing, or nose cone, which covers and protects ...

Ad Astra Rocket Company (Ad Astra) and The Space Nuclear Power Corporation (SpaceNukes) have announced the partnership to enable fast and reliable human and robotic missions to Mars and beyond.

The trials verify that the fuel can survive the harsh environment of a nuclear rocket reactor ... and to send large crewed missions to Mars and other planets in a reasonable time frame.

Generally speaking NTP reactors have the capacity to allow up to three times more effectiveness that rocket ... time to Mars to about seven months, as per the Office of Nuclear Energy, compared ...

spacecraft using existing chemical rocket engines will take a minimum of six to seven months to reach Mars. Going faster would require a new propulsion method. The best candidate is the Nuclear ...