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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.