The Sunbird concept is for the fusion-powered ‘tugs’ to be permanently based in space, able to dock with spacecraft and ...

On Episode 152 of This Week In Space, Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik host Dr. Robert O'Brien, Director of the Universities Space ...

Nuclear Salt Water Rocket (NSWR) is a rocket that uses known physics and ... levels or beyond and operating with hundreds of gigawatts of power. The weaker NSWR engine analysis assumed a very low ...

AI gives a thumbs up to Brett Bellmore innovative modifications to Robert Zubrin’s Nuclear Salt Water Rocket (NSWR ... (an oriented long-chain polyethylene), hanging behind the rocket. The engines ...

On Episode 152 of This Week In Space, Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik host Dr. Robert O'Brien, Director of the Universities Space Research Association's Center for Space Nuclear Research, for a ...

A solid-state nuclear clock has a great potential to become a robust and portable timing device that is highly precise.

Ukraine war latest: Zelenskyy asks for air defence help in 'frank' call with Trump - as US says peace 'never been closer' The US says "peace has never been closer" after a Donald Trump-Volodymyr ...

Donald Trump has said "we are very much on track" after a "very good" call with the Ukrainian president. "Just completed a very good telephone call with President Zelenskyy of Ukraine," he said ...

This is where large radiator systems come into play, designed to release the heat generated by the nuclear engine into space. Building in space is not a new concept—NASA successfully assembled the ISS ...