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AI boosts spacecraft propulsion and may enable nuclear rockets

Artificial intelligence is quietly reshaping how rockets fly, how spacecraft sip propellant and how engineers think about the leap to nuclear propulsion. What began as a set of algorithms for ...
RealClearScience

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 confused for Mars. The alluvial basin is full of tan and gray regolith, hued ...
Axios

Nuclear propulsion push

Add Axios on Google The Nuclear Engine for Rocket Vehicle Applications (NERVA) was a joint NASA and Atomic Energy Commission ...
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In 2023 NASA outlined nuclear rocket plans to exponentially cut Mars travel time

In 2023 NASA outlined nuclear rocket plans to exponentially cut Mars travel time ...
AOL

UK rocket startup demonstrates world first plasma in nuclear fusion breakthrough

A team of British scientists has achieved the first ever plasma ignition inside a nuclear fusion rocket, marking a major milestone towards a new era of interstellar space travel. Bletchley-based ...
JD Supra

Reactors to Rockets: Nuclear Power’s Return to Space

With NASA’s Artemis II—the first crewed lunar flyby in more than 50 years—successfully completed, attention is now turning to what’s next: establishing an enduring presence on the moon. Through a ...
Scientific American

Nuclear spaceflight, Iran war’s emissions crisis and a strong Lyme vaccine trial result

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