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China's space program has completed a prototype design for a powerful nuclear reactor that might be 100 times powerful than NASA's.

Politecnico di Milano researchers work on new materials for space engines These updates are republished press releases and communications from members of the Science|Business Network The ATLAS project gets underway, its aim being to develop new materials that perform in extreme environmental conditions, enabling important progress in design and construction of space propulsion systems. ATLAS (Advanced Design of High Entropy Alloys Based Materials for Space Propulsion) is coordinated by the Politecnico di Milano as part of the Horizon 2020-SPACE programme and it has received three milli...

Universities Space Research Association Members Elect UTEP to the Association News provided by Share this article Share this article COLUMBIA, Md., May 27, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- The University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP), a top-tier doctoral research university located in one of the largest binational communities in the world, has joined the ranks of Universities Space Research Association (USRA), bringing the membership of the Association to a total of 114 universities. UTEP was elected by USRA's current university members and was formally included in the Association on May 17, 2021. The eli...

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Image: Luis M. Molina/Gizmodo (Getty Images) Five years ago, NASA researchers experimented with an object called the EmDrive (or electromagnetic drive), a Y-shaped metal chamber in which, they reported, thrust could be produced without propellant. Such a contraption would refute core principles of physics as we know them and eliminate a huge barrier to deep space travel by nullifying the need to carry fuel. Ultimately, the hope riding on EmDrive was that propellant-less thrusters would make travel to distant objects, like the outer solar system and even nearby extrasolar systems like Alpha Ce...