Interesting Engineering on MSN
Recycled nuclear waste to power space batteries for NASA lunar rovers, landers
Space nuclear batteries will provide reliable power to survive the lunar night and dark regions, essential for NASA's Artemis program.
A researcher, Heikki Mäntysaari from the University of Jyväskylä (Finland), has been part of an international research group that has made significant advances in modeling heavy ion collisions. New ...
Astronaut Stephen Hoburg captured this image of the International Space Station's Starboard-6 truss structure during a spacewalk in June 2023. The station, a project of 15 nations, is expected to be ...
The U.S. Department of Energy said on Tuesday it has selected Sam Altman-backed nuclear technology firm Oklo OKLO.N, Terrestrial Energy, TRISO-X and Valar Atomics for its new pilot program to build ...
For decades, the military has relied on large, multi-ton satellites for global communications from geostationary orbit (GEO), a prime location 35,000 kilometers above Earth that provides unique ...
Is NASA really planning an Armageddon-style mission near the Moon's orbit? The US space agency, together with astronomers around the world, is considering the best way ...
Hosted on MSN
The Nuclear Rocket NASA Almost Launched Into Space
What if the most powerful spaceship ever designed was powered by nuclear bombs? Project Orion was an ambitious Cold War-era idea to send massive spacecraft into space using atomic explosions for ...
That something is nuclear propulsion. Essentially, a nuclear rocket engine is a reactor that has hydrogen running through it as a propellant, which is heated to an astonishing 3,000 K (2,727 °C, 4,940 ...
Members of the STAR collaboration, a group of physicists collecting and analyzing data from particle collisions at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC), have published a new high-precision ...
Castle Rock is grappling with an unusual problem in today's commercial real estate market: a severe shortage of available office space. Russia Issues Stern Response to Trump’s Sanctions Threat Tears ...
LITTLE ROCK, AR (KATV) — The Little Rock Workforce Development Board has been awarded a $4 million grant from the U.S. Department of Labor to support its re-entry program. The money will be used to ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump announced on Tuesday that U.S. Space Command will be located in Alabama, reversing a Biden-era decision to keep it at its temporary headquarters in Colorado.
Some results have been hidden because they may be inaccessible to you
Show inaccessible results