NASA's initiatives to pioneer next-generation space technologies are also hit hard in the White House's budget proposal. If ...

How can fission-powered propulsion help advance deep space exploration, specifically to the outer planets like Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune? This is what a recent study presented at the ...

Project Orion: The Atomic Starship ... “Nuclear propulsion may more than double the specific impulse attainable while still maintaining high thrust-to-weight ratios and could make possible the ...

00:26 – Project Orion 02:27 – Project Nerva 03:49 ... So the reason why I mentioned this is not only how crazy that sounds for starters, but these ideas of nuclear power propulsion, ...

Known as Project Orion, physicist Freeman Dyson and a team from General Atomics ran the project for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) in the 1950s and early 1960s.

Advancing Nuclear Pulse Propulsion. The original Project Orion used fission bombs, yielding a specific impulse (Isp) of 2,000 to 6,000 seconds (exhaust velocities of 20–60 km/s). For interstellar ...

The RocketRoll project—short for the clumsier “pReliminary eurOpean reCKon on nuclEar elecTric pROpuLsion”—is the latter: It aims to propose a nuclear electric propulsion system as a ...

Nuclear thermal propulsion systems have roughly twice the specific impulse of chemical rockets, which means they could cut the travel time by a factor of 2. Nuclear thermal propulsion history. For ...

A consortium led by Belgian engineering firm Tractebel has completed the European Space Agency-commissioned RocketRoll project on nuclear electric propulsion for space exploration. The consortium has ...

One company's vision for nuclear-powered ships (Image: Core Power) The USD800,000 research project was awarded last year by the DOE Office of Nuclear Energy and has been formally contracted through ...

Project Orion could revolutionize Cyberpunk 2077 by making masks essential gear for players to survive in hazardous areas of Night City. The sequel might explore space travel, where advanced ...