Spacecraft Propulsion

NASA, Nuclear power in space

NASA races to have the first moon base and nuclear-propulsion spacecraft

NASA is hitting the accelerator on space missions and moon trips in the hopes of achieving some big firsts — a permanent moon base and an interplanetary spacecraft harnessing nuclear propulsion.

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NASA to test nuclear electric propulsion with 2028 mission to Mars

Smithsonian Magazine · 1d

NASA Aims to Launch the World’s First Planet-Hopping Spacecraft Powered by Nuclear Fission

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NASA’s ambitious plans for a Moon base mark a rethinking of its future

“T HE UNITED STATES will never again give up the Moon.”

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NASA Wants Twice-Yearly Flurry Of Missions To Build Moon Base

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NASA plans nuclear powered spacecraft to explore Mars by 2028

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NASA to spend $20B on moon base, cancel orbiting lunar station

That is sending companies scrambling to accommodate the extra urgency ‌as China makes progress ⁠toward its own 2030 moon landing.

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NASA scraps orbiting station for $20 billion moon base

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NASA Pivots Artemis Program Toward Building Permanent Base on the Moon

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Fusion propulsion advances as Sunbird engine hits first plasma milestone

UK-based Pulsar Fusion has achieved its first plasma in the exhaust system of its

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Mars Just Got Closer: How NASA's SR-1 Freedom Could Rewrite Space Travel

The spacecraft will deliver NASA's Skyfall payload, which is a group of helicopters designed to find subsurface water on Mars.

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AI is making spacecraft propulsion more efficient, and could even lead to nuclear-powered rockets

Every year, companies and space agencies launch hundreds of rockets into space—and that number is set to grow dramatically with ambitious missions to the moon, Mars and beyond. But these dreams hinge on one critical challenge: propulsion—the methods ...

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Breakthrough propulsion system lets satellites use Earth’s atmosphere as fuel in low orbit

The new efforts in air-breathing electric propulsion (ABEP) systems promise to revolutionize how satellites operate—especially in extremely low Earth orbits.

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ISPTech Raises €5.5M Seed Round to Redefine How Spacecraft Manoeuvre in Orbit

ISPTech, a German space technology company developing propulsion systems for agile in-orbit maneuvering, announced it has raised €5.5 million in seed funding to deploy its advanced, non-toxic propulsion solutions for operational space missions.

Startup Successfully Ignites World’s First Fusion Rocket

Space propulsion company Pulsar Fusion has achieved “first plasma” in its Sunbird nuclear fusion rocket, designed to propel rockets faster than any object has ever traveled.