He also worked on the famous Project Orion, which used nuclear bombs for propulsion. In this article we’ll take a look at these and other parts of Mr. Dyson’s legacy, as well as the influence ...

Nuclear pulse propulsion is a technology that would work. It was being developed in the 1960s but it was stopped because of the nuclear test ban treaty and concerns over fallout inside the ...

There is an online site for determining solar system travel times with advanced propulsion. The most probable torchship designs proposed are nuclear pulse propulsion (e.g., Project Orion) and nuclear ...

followed in the 1990s by research at Pennsylvania State University into antimatter-catalyzed nuclear pulse propulsion. At this point NASA and others are actively researching different types of ...

On Episode 152 of This Week In Space, Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik host Dr. Robert O'Brien, Director of the Universities Space ...

The Sunbird nuclear fusion rocket concept has the potential to more than halve the time to travel to Mars and cut travel time ...

for a fascinating deep dive into nuclear propulsion technology for space exploration. They discuss the history, current developments, and future potential of nuclear electric and nuclear thermal ...

Could nuclear propulsion be the breakthrough that takes humans to Mars more efficiently? This deep dive explores the challenges of interplanetary travel, the limitations of current chemical and ...

TechnicAtome has been contracted to build the nuclear propulsion system, including two K22 nuclear reactors similar to those in the SNLE 3G. The aircraft carrier will be powered by a nuclear ...