U.K. start-up Pulsar Fusion has unveiled plans to build a fleet of reusable nuclear fusion-powered rockets, known as Sunbirds ...

The Sunbird concept is for the fusion-powered ‘tugs’ to be permanently based in space, able to dock with spacecraft and ...

SpaceX Elon Musk is adamant that the space company will eventually make humanity interplanetary by establishing a permanent ...

Among the investors was André-Hubert Roussel, former CEO of ArianeGroup, who oversaw the development of Europe’s only ...

One in Four Chance Per Year That Rocket Junk Will Enter Busy Airspace Feb. 5, 2025 — There's a 26 per cent annual chance that space rocket junk will re-enter the atmosphere and pass through a ...

Amazon, Google and Meta have supported a pledge to triple nuclear capacity by 2050. Microsoft and Apple noticeably did not ...

Elon Musk is telling Republican lawmakers that he's not to blame for the firings of thousands of federal workers as he pushes ...

Nearly two months after an explosion sent flaming debris raining down on the Turks and Caicos, SpaceX launched another mammoth Starship rocket on Thursday, but lost contact minutes into the test ...

But the agency’s budget is under constant strain from an unnecessary and impractical mission to return astronauts to the moon on a government-built rocket ... ion beams and nuclear devices ...

An asteroid strike on Earth could exceed the destructive power of an all-out nuclear war, triggering ... [+] earthquakes, tsunamis and wildfires that crisscross continents. (Illustration by Tobias ...

Trapezoidal collocation is used to solve the optimal control problem of a simple 2d rocket (see dynamics.mlx), only powered by one throttleable thrust-vector engine. The resulting NLP was solved with ...