In this week’s episode of Space Minds, Tory Bruno, CEO of United Launch Alliance, sits down with host Mike Gruss. The conversation with Bruno focuses on the development of the Vulcan rocket and its ...

I’ve grown up with rockets that burn chemical fuel, but NASA’s next big leap in propulsion could make those engines look as dated as steam trains. By turning to nuclear power in space, the agency is ...

A US-based propulsion company, Venus Aerospace, said Wednesday it had completed a short flight test of its rotating detonation rocket engine at Spaceport America in New Mexico. The company’s chief ...

NASA’s push for a new nuclear rocket engine is not just another upgrade to the hardware we strap to the bottom of spacecraft.

Using supersonic shockwaves for combustion, the groundbreaking design could allow aircraft to travel up to six times the speed of sound. Reading time: Reading time 4 minutes Venus Aerospace is a ...

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This new propulsion system could rewrite the rules of spaceflight—not to mention completely defy conventional physics.