NASA Funds Breakthrough Nuclear Rocket
by Brian Wang from NextBigFuture.com on (#6N3EQ)
A breakthrough pulsed plasma rocket is getting NASA phase 2 innovative concepts funding. It will have 15 times the efficiency of chemical rockets and with high levels of thrust at the level of a medium sized chemical rocket. Howe Industries is currently developing a propulsion system that may generate up to 100,000 Newtons of thrust ...