This plant will serve the ILRS, a joint project by the two nations aimed at establishing a long-term, manned presence on the ...

How can fission-powered propulsion help advance deep space exploration, specifically to the outer planets like Jupiter, ...

Nuclear is the only game in town,” agrees Simon Middleburgh of the Nuclear Futures Institute, pointing to the key role played ...

The Sunbird Migratory Transfer Vehicle, designed by Pulsar Fusion, would be capable of reaching 329,000 miles per hour (over 529,000 kilometers per hour), the company claims. This would make it the ...

Zeno Power says it has raised $50 million in funding to boost the development of nuclear batteries for maritime and space applications.

NASA's eight-rotor Dragonfly drone just finished a crucial test, which confirmed the spacecraft's design and will allow the project to move forward with full-scale fabrication of the spacecraft, ...

For power generation, radioisotope thermoelectric generators convert heat ... Spacecraft powered by nuclear thermal propulsion could reach Mars in approximately half the time of chemical engines ...

Even in the inner solar system, spacecraft such as lunar or Mars rovers need alternative power sources ... radioisotope thermoelectric generators, or RTGs. RTGs are essentially nuclear-powered ...

Radioisotope thermoelectric generators do not rely on ... powerful heat that is the energy source to power an RTG. The nuclear heat source for the Mars Curiosity rover is encased in a graphite ...

Even in the inner solar system, spacecraft such as lunar or Mars rovers need alternative power sources ... thermoelectric generators, or RTGs. RTGs are essentially nuclear-powered batteries.