Nuclear spacecraft propulsion

study conducted by the British Interplanetary Society about a probe using a fusion rocket to reach Barnard’s Star

propulsion methods that use a nuclear reaction as the primary power source

nuclear explosion-powered spacecraft

form of rocket propulsion

spacecraft propulsion method that collects its fuel from interstellar dust.

interstellar spaceprobe

propulsion methods for spacecrafts using nuclear explosions

The Nuclear Engine for Rocket Vehicle Application (NERVA; ) was a nuclear thermal rocket engine development program that ran for roughly two decades. Its principal objective was to "establish a technology base for nuclear rocket engine systems to be utilized in the design and development of propulsion systems for space mission application". It was a joint effort of the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), and was managed by the Space Nuclear Propulsion Office (SNPO) until the program ended in January 1973. SNPO was led by NASA's Harold Fi

NASA project to develop nuclear-powered systems for long-duration space missions

rocket driven by nuclear fusion power

Space exploration using nuclear energy

propulsion system

U.S. project to build a nuclear thermal rocket

RD-0410 (РД-0410, GRAU index: 11B91) was a Soviet nuclear thermal rocket engine developed by the Chemical Automatics Design Bureau in Voronezh from 1965 through the 1980s using liquid hydrogen propellant. The engine was ground-tested at the Semipalatinsk Test Site, and its use was incorporated in the Kurchatov Mars 1994 crewed mission proposal.

study started in 2009 for the design of an interstellar space probe

proposed nuclear pulse propulsion through antimatter-catalyzed nuclear chain reactions