How do you control a nuclear space propulsion system? Very carefully. To help with this, the Oak Ridge National Laboratory ...

What if spinning molten uranium at thousands of revolutions per minute held the secret to halving the travel time to Mars?

University College London (UCL) and its student-led Rocket team, Eplus3D has successfully additively manufactured a ...

Ohio State University engineers are developing a centrifugal nuclear thermal rocket, promising to double engine efficiency ...

The Ohio State University is developing a new nuclear thermal propulsion system called the centrifugal nuclear thermal rocket (CNTR).  Rather than solid fuel elements, this new design uses liquid ...

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Welcome to Edition 7.14 of the Rocket Report! For readers who don't know, my second book was published last week. It's titled Reentry, and tells the story behind the story of SpaceX's development of ...

North Korea has tested ICBMs that could potentially reach the U.S. mainland, including those with built-in solid propellants ...

Kim Jong Un on Monday watched a test of North Korea’s new high-thrust rocket engine, setting the stage for Pyongyang to test ...

Musk has tweeted that Starship will be capable of 10,000 km without Super Heavy. This was a special version of Starship for E2E, that has 2-4 Raptor engines added. That tweet was from 2019; I've not ...

HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (WHNT) — Parts of Huntsville are headed into space, but this time, the parts are reusable. According to the Blue Origin website, the engines of the Blue Origin New Glenn reusable ...