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The Future of Space Technology and How It May Benefit Humanity

NASA has been developing new propulsion technologies including: 1. air ... “NASA Announces Nuclear Thermal Propulsion Reactor Concept Awards,” https ...

Nuclear Power for Cargo Ships on Earth and Rockets to Mars

DARPA, in collaboration with NASA, announced progress toward the goal of the world's first in-orbit demonstration of a nuclear thermal rocket ( ...

Caroline Genzale Receives NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts ...

Sixteen new concepts received funding this year, along with seven projects that are continuations of previously funded work. The multidisciplinary Georgia Tech ...

Track 2: Nuclear Fission Power and Propulsion

Rocket Engine Modeling Project,” NASA Technical. Memorandum. 107318 ... new nuclear space fuel concepts. If deployed to its potential, the facility ...

NASA sees a future with nuclear power | Physics Today

In a separate program, NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center is leading the development of nuclear–thermal propulsion (NTP), with the idea of ...

NASA'S NEW NUCLEAR VISION | Science | thesentinel.com

Further, nuclear power—either through nuclear thermal propulsion (NTP) or nuclear electric propulsion (NEP)—would “provide power for future ...

Nuclear rocket redux - Aerospace America - AIAA

The United States has had multiple dalliances over the decades with in-space nuclear propulsion. The latest resurgence of interest is ...

NASA's NEW Nuclear Engine to visit Mars in Day, Faster ... - YouTube

NASA's NEW Nuclear Engine to visit Mars in Day, Faster & Better Starship! · Comments240.

Lockheed Martin pitching nuclear propulsion portfolio for defense ...

In 2023, the company was tapped by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency and NASA to develop the spacecraft for the Demonstration Rocket ...

How a NASA nuclear rocket engine could unleash the solar system

Advocates of nuclear-powered rockets have long-stressed the advantages: allowing spacecraft to travel faster, carry heavier loads of people and ...

Advanced Propulsion Systems: Engineering and Designing the ...

Ion Thrusters: A Practical Future of Deep Space Exploration · Plasma Rockets: Next-Generation Propulsion · Fusion Propulsion: The Promise of Unlimited Energy.

Framework - NASA TechPort

Develop technologies for in-space creation, maintenance, and evolution of space assets leveraging expanding in-space infrastructure. Small Spacecraft ...

CSNR Home - CSNR

CSNR researchers are developing tungsten-based, ceramic, and even liquid and gaseous fuels for use in a nuclear thermal rocket. In the case of tungsten CERMET ...

Could a Nuclear Thermal Rocket Engine Power a Trip to Mars ...

With the help of this new technology, astronauts could journey to and from deep space faster than ever – a major capability to prepare for ...

The New Space Race | Power & Politics in 21st Century

NASA's Artemis missions aim to land the first woman and person of colour on the Moon, create a lunar base, and lay the groundwork for a future trip to Mars!

Human Space Exploration | Lockheed Martin

Serving as the crew vehicle for NASA's Artemis program, Orion is integral to humanity's return to the Moon, marking the first step in a renewed era of lunar and ...

Nuclear thermal rocket - Wikipedia

This follows on their selection, in 2021, of an early engine design by General Atomics and two spacecraft concepts from Blue Origin and Lockheed Martin. The ...

'Bubble-through' nuclear engine might be a future NASA workhorse

A cutting-edge nuclear thermal propulsion (NTP) rocket engine using what's called centrifugal liquid fuel bubble-through could one day be a ticket for NASA.

NASA plans for lunar fission power systems face fiscal challenges

Advocates of nuclear power systems for lunar exploration are calling on NASA to find ways to continue work amid fiscal challenges and ...

Jet Propulsion Laboratory - NASA

Space mission and science news, images and videos from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, the leading center for robotic exploration of the solar system.