NASA’s push for a new nuclear rocket engine is not just another upgrade to the hardware we strap to the bottom of spacecraft.
Two rocket launches took place this week from Vandenberg Space Force Base, one by SpaceX that delivered another 28 Starlink satellites to its mega-constellation of 8,800 satellites currently in orbit, ...
NASA is backing a new generation of nuclear rockets that could compress the months-long journey to Mars into a sprint ...
As Russia threatens atomic attacks on Ukraine and its Western allies, and prototypes a nuclear-armed spacecraft, space powers across Europe are racing to defend against nuclear strikes in orbit.
The US Air Force Research Laboratory’s Space Vehicles Directorate has given space technology and infrastructure services company Intuitive Machines a USD8.2 million contract extension to develop ...
WASHINGTON — Nuclear power startup Antares announced a $96 million Series B round Dec. 2 to fund work on developing small nuclear reactors, including for space applications. The company said the ...