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A new FireStar Fusion Drive has been successfully tested designed specifically for space exploration. Its latest iteration offers a 50% thrust

I was amused to read recently that the US military plans to send nuclear reactors into space, as if space is not already pretty full of nuclear reactors. Unfortunately, neither the US military nor anyone else on Earth has yet worked out how to harness nuclear fusion – the process that powers the sun and all the other stars. The only human use of fusion is in thermonuclear weapons. This more modest plan involves sending ordinary fission reactors into space.

Chemical rockets and solar panels will chain humanity to Earth forever

Nuclear Thermal Propulsion (NTP) is the preferred propulsion technology for manned missions throughout the solar system. The state-of-the-art NTP cycle is

U.S. defense and space agencies are working toward the world’s first in-orbit demo of a nuclear thermal rocket. It will support commercial activit on the moon.

President Putin has confirmed the successful testing of the Burevestnik (‘Stormbringer’), a Russian nuclear-powered, nuclear-capable cruise missile unlike anything that exists in any other nation’s arsenal. What do we know about the weapon? What impact will it have on the global strategic balance? Sputnik reached out to a top expert to find out.

The company is planning to perform the first in-space flight demonstration of its nuclear thermal propulsion system by 2027.

Nuclear-powered spacecraft are in the domain of science fiction, right? Though theoretically fantastic for bringing humans to other heavenly bodies, we&#...

The $499 million mission will be the first test in orbit of a nuclear spacecraft, NASA announced.

Nuclear Power for Cargo Ships on Earth and Rockets to Mars