In an MIT News report, Hampson highlighted the financial difficulty of developing NTP. “Sure, you can get double the ...

The Space Age framed nuclear propulsion as a quiet rethinking of movement, distance, and endurance beyond Earth.

Space agencies are moving closer to a new era of rocket propulsion that could fundamentally change deep-space travel. Nuclear ...

L3Harris Technologies said Jan. 5 it will sell a majority stake in its space propulsion business to private equity firm AE ...

Going to the moon was one thing; going to Mars will be quite another. The distance alone is intimidating. While the moon is ...

Reaching Alpha Centauri within a single human lifetime has long sounded like science fiction, yet a new generation of nuclear ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio – New developments in nuclear thermal propulsion technologies may soon enable advanced space missions to the farthest reaches of the solar system. Leading these advances are researchers ...

Solid rocket motors remain essential for missiles, target vehicles, and space-launch systems, but their development cycles ...