A new technology, the Fission Fragment Rocket Engine (FFRE), requires small amounts of readily available, energy dense, long lasting fuel, significant thrust at specific impulse of a million seconds, ...

If you ask some people, humanity has more than proven its worth as a space-faring species. In a few short decades, we’ve gone from flying piston aircraft in our own atmosphere to sending people and ...

A nuclear fission fragment rocket engine (FFRE) that is exponentially more propellent efficient than rocket engines currently used to power today’s space vehicles and could eventually achieve very ...