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Antimatter Propulsion: Assessing Its Potential for Future Interstellar Missions
Explore how matter‑antimatter annihilation could power interstellar spacecraft, its challenges, and why it matters for humanity’s deep‑space future.
Kreios Space to Demonstrate Air‑Breathing Electric Propulsion in VLEO on NanoAvionics MP42 Bus
Kreios Space will test its air‑breathing electric propulsion on a VLEO mission using a NanoAvionics MP42 microsatellite, aiming to stay at 200 km without onboard propellant.
Nuclear Pulse Propulsion and Project Orion: A Star Drive That Almost Was
In the late 1950s and early 1960s, a group of physicists at General Atomics designed what remains the most powerful spacecraft propulsion system ever seriously considered: a ship that would ride a series of nuclear explosions to velocities capable of reaching other stars within a human lifetime. Project Orion was cancelled in 1963. Its physics still works.