This week, NASA administrator Jared Isaacman announced the agency will be developing the "first nuclear powered interplanetary spacecraft" ahead of a planned 2028 launch to Mars. The ambition of the ...
The award is part of a total $22.3 billion of funding for NASA in a commerce, justice, and science (CJS) appropriations bill approved by the House Appropriations Committee this month. “The bill’s ...
On February 24, 2026, inside a vacuum chamber at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, engineers ignited a thruster that burned lithium metal vapor and reached 120 kilowatts of ...
We don’t need any advanced propulsion to get to Mars,” says Robert Zubrin, founder of the Mars Society and the astronautical engineering company Pioneer Astronautics. “We can do it with chemical ...
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is developing a new generation of modular nuclear reactors that will power manned outposts on the moon and Mars, providing a simple, yet ...
Nasa is developing ways to use nuclear power to send spacecraft to their destinations. Nuclear propulsion could greatly reduce the journey time to Mars, perhaps cutting a voyage of more than six ...