Scientists and engineers are diligently working on innovative concepts to make the next era of human spaceflight more powerful and more efficient using nuclear propulsion. One of these designs, known ...

In the barren deserts of southeastern California lies the Mojave Test Area, where the USC Rocket Propulsion Lab broke a world record Oct. 21 for the most powerful solid motor ever launched by students ...

Propulsion occurs when an engine produces a force called "thrust," which pushes a rocket or fighter jet in the opposite direction. Though many jet engines do make use of air in their propulsion ...

A group of Kingston University in London engineering students have developed a rocket engine powered by an unusual but highly ...

This means lightening the rocket’s overall load, which can also reduce costs. So far, the research has remained strictly ground-based, performed at UCF’s Propulsion and Energy Research Laboratory.

Rocket propulsion hasn't changed much in decades, but a group of young scientists think that beamed microwave energy could power a new generation of rockets, leading to lower costs and opening ...

Rocket A shoots all the fuel at once (again, like a nuclear propulsion engine) with a fuel speed of u and rocket B shoots two blobs of fuel—first a shot of m/2 and another one of m/2. Both start ...

After that, Artemis’s Interim Cryogenic Propulsion Stage will propel the Orion spacecraft toward the moon. ... Which rocket has the most iterations? NASA’s SLS. So, which is more powerful?