With This Plasma Engine Prototype, The Possibility Of Traveling To Mars In 30 Days Gets Closer

While traditional rockets have gotten us into space for decades, newer tech is on the horizon, like this plasma engine that ...

This New Engine Could Get Us To Mars In Just 30 Days

A one-way trip to the Mars usually takes about 9 months, but one team out of Russia thinks they can knock that down to 30 ...
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SpaceOps: Dream Chaser Reality Check

The reusable Dream Chaser is 30 ft. long—approximately the same size as the U.S. Space Force’s X-37B spaceplane—but with a 23 ...
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Pulsar Fusion wants to use nuclear fusion to make interstellar space travel a reality

Space propulsion company Pulsar Fusion has started construction on a large nuclear fusion chamber in England, as it races to become the first firm to fire a nuclear fusion-powered propulsion system in ...

NASA Can Open Up the Solar System With Nuclear Propulsion

Viewed from orbit, Jackass Flats — situated in southern Nevada about 65 miles northwest of Las Vegas — could easily be ...
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Electric spacecraft propulsion may soon take a leap, thanks to new supercomputer

Spacecraft powered by electric propulsion could soon be better protected against their own exhaust, thanks to new ...
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NASA successfully tests advanced electric propulsion system for eventual deep space exploration

NASA said that a new ion-drive spacecraft engine that doubles the thrust of the most powerful previous version has passed its first round of testing. NASA tested Aerojet Rocketdyne’s new Hall-effect ...
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Nuclear Thermal Propulsion Reactor Fuel That Could Take Humans To Mars Tested At NASA Facility

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