MOSCOW, Jan. 4 (Xinhua) -- A nuclear-powered space engine prototype must be developed in Russia by 2030, and two gigafactories will be opened this year, Alexei Likhachev, director general of Russia's ...

Russia has historically been a trailblazer when it comes to space exploration. It was the first to put a human into space in 1961 with Yuri Gagarin. It led the way for the first spacewalk and had the ...

Welcome to Edition 8.10 of the Rocket Report! Dear readers, if everything goes according to plan, four astronauts are less than six months away from traveling around the far side of the Moon and ...

That something is nuclear propulsion. Essentially, a nuclear rocket engine is a reactor that has hydrogen running through it as a propellant, which is heated to an astonishing 3,000 K (2,727 °C, 4,940 ...

The ​ability to return, recover, and reuse a rocket's engine-packed ‍first stage, or booster, after launch is crucial to reducing costs and making it easier for countries to send satellites into orbit ...

In July 1969, the Soviet Union’s N1 moon rocket ignited all 30 engines and detonated on the launch pad, creating one of the most powerful non nuclear explosions in history. This is the story of how a ...

Russia plans to put ​a nuclear power plant on the moon in the next decade to supply its lunar space program and a joint ...

After nearly a decade of development, Russia’s newest launch vehicle is close to its debut flight. The medium-lift Soyuz 5 rocket is expected to launch from the Baikonur Cosmodrome before the end of ...