Ad Astra Rocket Company has spent over two decades developing the Variable Specific Impulse Magnetoplasma Rocket (VASIMR), a highly efficient electric propulsion system. VASIMR operates by ...

However, this type of electric propulsion system requires a lot of energy, so the company has opted for a unique tie-up for a power plant that could solve that problem—a nuclear reactor.

NASA's nuclear propulsion breakthrough promises Mars trips in 45 days. Combining nuclear and plasma systems boosts efficiency ...

clear indications of nuclear fusion,” noted the release. The discovery was further confirmed and validated during the SBIR Phase 2 project at Georgia Tech’s High Power Electric Propulsion ...

a nuclear microreactor. This technology will provide the sustained power needed for high-speed electric propulsion. “It will ...

Rendering of a 40-megawatt VASIMR Nuclear Electric Propulsion (NEP) human mission to Mars. Credit: Ad Astra Rocket Co. HOUSTON—Strategic partners Ad Astra Rocket Co. and Space Nuclear Power Corp.

Meanwhile, nuclear propulsion is literally the only way that a world power can project military might, as diesel-electric submarines and conventionally powered aircraft carriers lack the range ...

flight vehicle power engineering, and nuclear reactor engineering. At the HIT Plasma Propulsion Lab (HPPL), headed by Daren Yu, SESE researchers have been investigating electric propulsion ...

The two companies have signed a memorandum of understanding to advance high-power Nuclear Electric Propulsion technology for fast and reliable missions, both human and robotic. “We think nuclear ...

The plant was scheduled to begin shutting down in November, but its lifespan was extended in a last-minute legislative deal ...