General Atomic's new nuclear fuel was subjected to the maximum heat of a reactor for 20 minutes in the latest tests.

A new type of nuclear thermal propulsion reactor fuel has been successfully tested at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center, ...

General Atomics Electromagnetic Systems (GA-EMS) has successfully tested the nuclear fuel that may one day propel and power the spacecraft of the future. The trials verify that the fuel can survive ...

A DRACO ground test would need to capture plume exhaust fully to ensure no radioactive materials are released to the ...

An alternative technology to the chemically propelled rockets the agency develops now is called nuclear thermal propulsion, ...

General Atomics has completed several key tests for nuclear thermal propulsion (NTP) reactor technology at NASA’s MSFC.

American company General Atomics announced it completed a series of test on a nuclear fuel designed for the Nuclear Thermal ...

The trip to Mars and back is not one for the faint of heart. We're not talking days, weeks, or months. But there are ...

As the heated propellant expands, it’s ultimately exhausted out of a nozzle in much the same way as in a traditional rocket. It’s also similar to the concept of nuclear thermal propulsion ...

But for now, he says, there are other better options, such as nuclear thermal electric propulsion. Another idea is to use chemical rockets to lift off from Earth and to land on Mars. But for the ...

There are several mega-rockets already being developed that ... to develop and demonstrate advanced nuclear thermal propulsion technology as soon as 2027," said Nasa boss Bill Nelson.

Scientists have thought about attaching nuclear, thermal-rocket engines to ammonia-heavy asteroids and redirecting the asteroids so that they crash into Mars and release the meteor's ammonia and ...