"It was definitely a paradigm shift," says Design News 2004 Engineer of the Year Paul Bevilaqua, recalling when DARPA awarded contracts to develop a common, affordable, strike fighter to Lockheed ...
A new propulsion concept called the Nuclear Thermal Turbo Rocket (NTTR) is proposed for Earth to Orbit applications. The NTTR utilizes a nuclear fission reactor to thermally heat hydrogen propellant ...