General Atomic's new nuclear fuel was subjected to the maximum heat of a reactor for 20 minutes in the latest tests.

General Atomics Electromagnetic Systems (GA-EMS) has successfully tested the nuclear fuel that may one day propel and power the spacecraft of the future. The trials verify that the fuel can survive ...

General Atomics has completed several key tests for nuclear thermal propulsion (NTP) reactor technology at NASA’s MSFC.

A DRACO ground test would need to capture plume exhaust fully to ensure no radioactive materials are released to the ...

A new type of nuclear thermal propulsion reactor fuel has been successfully tested at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center, ...

American company General Atomics announced it completed a series of test on a nuclear fuel designed for the Nuclear Thermal ...

NASA has achieved a critical milestone in space exploration with the successful testing of advanced nuclear thermal ...

The trip to Mars and back is not one for the faint of heart. We're not talking days, weeks, or months. But there are ...

As we set our sights on crewed Mars missions, we're going to have to consider some next-level rocket engines. One idea with a lot of potential is nuclear thermal propulsion. 'Apocalyptic ...

Rocket technology predates space exploration by almost a thousand years, and although today's computerized multi-ton launch vehicles are a lot more capable than 11th-century gunpowder-assisted ...

The job posts for the Moscow Institute for Thermal Technology and Sozvezdie ... which analysts said was based on the RS-26 Rubezh, a nuclear-capable ballistic missile that has been tested but ...