The space agency is investing in the development of a propulsion system that uses nuclear power to create plasma bursts. Reading time 2 minutes The future of space travel depends on our ability to ...

A breakthrough pulsed plasma rocket is getting NASA phase 2 innovative concepts funding. It will have 15 times the efficiency of chemical rockets and with high levels of thrust at the level of a ...

(Nanowerk News) A new type of rocket thruster that could take humankind to Mars and beyond has been proposed by a physicist at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory ...

A crewed mission to Mars may be more practical thanks to a new rocket concept developed by Fatima Ebrahimi, a physicist at the US Department of Energy’s (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL ...

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NASA has signed an agreement with Houston-based Ad Astra Rocket Co. that paves the way for commercialization of a promising advanced plasma rocket system that has evolved over the past 25 years. The ...

Reaching Alpha Centauri within a single human lifetime has long sounded like science fiction, yet a new generation of nuclear pulse concepts is forcing that timeline into serious discussion. The idea ...

HOUSTON—The Ad Astra Rocket Co. has completed a 30-month NASA contract to continue advancing its Variable Specific Impulse Magnetoplasma Rocket (VASIMR) concept with the potential to reach Mars within ...

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artist's conception of a fusion rocket CREDIT Elle Starkman (PPPL Office of Communications) and ITER A new type of rocket thruster that could take humankind to Mars and beyond has been proposed by a ...