A team from the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory, joined by university students, recently traveled to The Ohio State University Research Reactor to conduct a novel experiment on ...

We are finally at the cusp for both nuclear electric propulsion and nuclear thermal propulsion,” said Kristin Houston, ...

An alternative technology to the chemically propelled rockets the agency develops now is called nuclear thermal propulsion, which uses nuclear fission and could one day power a rocket that makes ...

Zubrin also had a design for interplanetary propulsion called the Nuclear Salt Water Rocket. A nuclear salt-water rocket (NSWR) is a theoretical type of nuclear thermal rocket. A conservative design ...

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) A novel experiment on nuclear thermal rocket fuel coatings was conducted to advance NASA's Mars mission capabilities. The experiment tested zirconium carbide ...

Bothell-based Portal Space Systems, a space startup developing satellite systems, has closed an oversubscribed $17.5 million ...

and future potential of nuclear electric and nuclear thermal propulsion systems, which could revolutionize our ability to explore Mars and beyond — both robotically and with human crews.

BWXT is also part of a joint venture selected in 2023 to deliver the fuel and reactor for the DARPA DRACO programme to develop a nuclear thermal rocket engine for an in-space demonstration. The ...