To reduce the radiation hazard for manned missions to Mars and beyond, a high specific impulse-high thrust system is needed, with a nuclear bomb propulsion system the preferred candidate. The ...

Micro-fusion work of Friedwardt Winterberg from the 1950’s-1970s was recently declassified. Winterberg had several ideas for using micro-fusion without fission bomb triggers to generate nuclear energy ...

Microwave plasma dynamics encompasses the study of ionised gases generated by high frequency electromagnetic fields and their complex interactions with the surrounding medium. At the heart of this ...

Tsukuba, Japan – Sending a rocket into space typically requires about 90% of the rocket’s initial weight to be fuel. This limitation could be overcome by wirelessly transmitting the needed power to ...

The word far is an understatement when it comes to the vast distances between celestial bodies. The distance between the sun and our farthest planet Neptune is 2.7 billion miles—it would take ...

Air Force Research Laboratory’s (AFRL/PR) Propulsion Directorate develops next generation rocket propulsion technologies to maintain DoD air and space superiority as well as act as an executing agent ...

Space Micro Inc., powered by Voyager Space, recently delivered a total of seven (7) flight-level Single Board Computers (SBCs) to NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) of Pasadena, CA for the Sun ...

Exotrail and Muon Space have inked their first contract for the supply of electric propulsion systems for the next phase of Muon Space’s climate monitoring constellation. Muon Space, a climate ...

Researchers found that power could be sent to a free-flying drone via a beam of microwave radiation. The team estimated the efficiency of this process and compared it with that for a fixed-position ...