Nuclear pulse propulsion or external pulsed plasma propulsion is a hypothetical method of spacecraft propulsion that uses nuclear explosions for thrust...

Antimatter-catalyzed nuclear pulse propulsion (also antiproton-catalyzed nuclear pulse propulsion) is a variation of nuclear pulse propulsion based upon the...

Nuclear propulsion includes a wide variety of propulsion methods that use some form of nuclear reaction as their primary power source. The idea of using...

banned nuclear explosions in space, amid concerns over nuclear fallout. Physicist Stanislaw Ulam proposed the general idea of nuclear pulse propulsion in...

NERVA – US Nuclear thermal rocket engine project (1956–1973) Nuclear electric rocket Nuclear pulse propulsion Project Pluto – US nuclear ramjet project...

A nuclear electric rocket (more properly nuclear electric propulsion) is a type of spacecraft propulsion system where thermal energy from a nuclear reactor...

Spacecraft electric propulsion (or just electric propulsion) is a type of spacecraft propulsion technique that uses electrostatic or electromagnetic fields...

more complex rockets. Fusion nuclear pulse propulsion is one approach to using nuclear fusion energy to provide propulsion. Fusion's main advantage is...

Nuclear pulse propulsion is a common feature of hard science fiction stories, as the idea offers high thrust and/or high specific impulse drives without...

Nuclear propulsion methods include: Fission-fragment rockets Fission sails Fusion rockets Nuclear thermal rockets (NTR) Nuclear pulse propulsion Nuclear salt-water...