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

NASA is developing a groundbreaking spacecraft concept designed to revolutionize Mars travel. The ambitious plan involves ...

Electric propulsion is being increasingly used on space missions and could ultimately replace thrusters using chemical ...

Once in space, robots would connect the nuclear electric propulsion system's radiator panels, through which a liquid metal coolant, such as a sodium-potassium alloy, would flow. While this is ...

NASA's MARVL project is developing a modular nuclear electric propulsion system for faster Mars travel. Robotic in-space assembly and advanced cooling tech could cut trip times in half.

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

Shipping nuclear propulsion start-up CORE POWER, which in November of last year announced a deal with Westinghouse for design ...

Instead of pursuing a three-aircraft carrier fleet, which would have kept two ships operational at all times, the Navy is ...

A research team from KAIST Nuclear and Quantum Engineering presents an AI assesser for Hall-effect ion thrusters, the engines ...

NASA is working on a nuclear electric propulsion system that would involve robotically assembling a space radiator the size of a football field out in the void. The project has moved beyond the ...

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Doctoral candidate Youngho Kim, Professor Wonho Choe and Doctoral candidate Jaehong Park of the Department of Nuclear and ...