Nuclear spacecraft propulsion

Industry

CPC
B64G1/408

This industry / category may be too specific. Please go to a parent level for more data

Parent Industries

BPERFORMING OPERATIONS TRANSPORTING B64Aviation B64GCOSMONAUTICS VEHICLES OR EQUIPMENT THEREFOR B64G1/00Cosmonautic vehicles

Current Industry

B64G1/408Nuclear spacecraft propulsion

Industries

Patents Grantslast 30 patents

Information Patent Grant
NTAC augmented nuclear electric propulsion and/or nuclear thermal p...
- Patent number 12,122,539
- Issue date Oct 22, 2024
- UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AS REPRESENTED BY THE ADMINISTRATOR OF NASA.
- Sang H. Choi
- G21 - NUCLEAR PHYSICS NUCLEAR ENGINEERING
Information Patent Grant
Robust nuclear propulsion fission reactor with tri-pitch patterned...
- Patent number 11,990,248
- Issue date May 21, 2024
- BWXT Advanced Technologies LLC
- Craig D. Gramlich
- G21 - NUCLEAR PHYSICS NUCLEAR ENGINEERING
Information Patent Grant
Nuclear thermal propulsion system with reactor direct drive of cryo...
- Patent number 11,975,870
- Issue date May 7, 2024
- Blue Origin, LLC
- Zachary Reid Tolley
- G21 - NUCLEAR PHYSICS NUCLEAR ENGINEERING
Information Patent Grant
Cermet fuel element and fabrication and applications thereof, inclu...
- Patent number 11,935,661
- Issue date Mar 19, 2024
- BWXT Nuclear Energy, Inc.
- James D. Jogerst
- B22 - CASTING POWDER METALLURGY
Information Patent Grant
Customizable thin plate fuel form and reactor core therefor
- Patent number 11,923,098
- Issue date Mar 5, 2024
- HOWE INDUSTRIES, LLC
- Troy M. Howe
- G21 - NUCLEAR PHYSICS NUCLEAR ENGINEERING
Information Patent Grant
Reactor rocket engine
- Patent number 11,846,273
- Issue date Dec 19, 2023
- Venus Aerospace Corp.
- Andrew Thomas Duggleby
- G21 - NUCLEAR PHYSICS NUCLEAR ENGINEERING
Information Patent Grant
Plenum plate standoff spools for separating a pair of plenum plates...
- Patent number 11,724,830
- Issue date Aug 15, 2023
- BWXT Nuclear Energy, Inc.
- James B. Inman
- G21 - NUCLEAR PHYSICS NUCLEAR ENGINEERING
Information Patent Grant
Carbide-based fuel assembly for thermal propulsion applications
- Patent number 11,728,044
- Issue date Aug 15, 2023
- BWXT Advanced Technologies LLC
- Eric A. Barringer
- G21 - NUCLEAR PHYSICS NUCLEAR ENGINEERING
Information Patent Grant
Carbide-based fuel assembly for thermal propulsion applications
- Patent number 11,710,578
- Issue date Jul 25, 2023
- BWXT Advanced Technologies LLC
- Eric A. Barringer
- G21 - NUCLEAR PHYSICS NUCLEAR ENGINEERING
Information Patent Grant
Method of using nanofuel in a nanofuel internal engine
- Patent number 11,557,404
- Issue date Jan 17, 2023
- Global Energy Research Associates, LLC
- Mark Lloyd Adams
- G21 - NUCLEAR PHYSICS NUCLEAR ENGINEERING
Information Patent Grant
Variable propellant density for passive reactivity control of nucle...
- Patent number 11,417,437
- Issue date Aug 16, 2022
- Ultra Safe Nuclear Corporation
- Paolo Francesco Venneri
- G21 - NUCLEAR PHYSICS NUCLEAR ENGINEERING
Information Patent Grant
Nuclear thermal propulsion nuclear reactor interface structure
- Patent number 11,158,433
- Issue date Oct 26, 2021
- BWXT Nuclear Energy, Inc.
- James Brian Inman
- B64 - AIRCRAFT AVIATION COSMONAUTICS
Information Patent Grant
Customizable thin plate fuel form and reactor core therefor
- Patent number 11,139,086
- Issue date Oct 5, 2021
- HOWE INDUSTRIES, LLC
- Troy M. Howe
- B64 - AIRCRAFT AVIATION COSMONAUTICS
Information Patent Grant
Spacecraft-module habitats and bases
- Patent number 10,960,993
- Issue date Mar 30, 2021
- Jerome Drexler
- G21 - NUCLEAR PHYSICS NUCLEAR ENGINEERING
Information Patent Grant
Micro-fusion-powered unmanned craft
- Patent number 10,940,931
- Issue date Mar 9, 2021
- Jerome Drexler
- G21 - NUCLEAR PHYSICS NUCLEAR ENGINEERING
Information Patent Grant
Spacecraft collision-avoidance propulsion system and method
- Patent number 10,815,014
- Issue date Oct 27, 2020
- Jerome Drexler
- B64 - AIRCRAFT AVIATION COSMONAUTICS
Information Patent Grant
Asteroid redirection and soft landing facilitated by cosmic ray and...
- Patent number 10,815,015
- Issue date Oct 27, 2020
- Jerome Drexler
- F42 - AMMUNITION BLASTING
Information Patent Grant
In space startup method for nuclear fusion rocket engines
- Patent number 10,811,143
- Issue date Oct 20, 2020
- Princeton Satellite Systems, Inc.
- Michael A. Paluszek
- B64 - AIRCRAFT AVIATION COSMONAUTICS
Information Patent Grant
Passive reactivity control of nuclear thermal propulsion reactors
- Patent number 10,643,754
- Issue date May 5, 2020
- Ultra Safe Nuclear Corporation
- Paolo Francesco Venneri
- F02 - COMBUSTION ENGINES HOT-GAS OR COMBUSTION-PRODUCT ENGINE PLANTS
Information Patent Grant
Fuel retention reactor for nuclear rocket engine
- Patent number 10,414,520
- Issue date Sep 17, 2019
- HARDY ENGINEERING & MANUFACTURING, INC.
- Richard Hardy
- B64 - AIRCRAFT AVIATION COSMONAUTICS
Information Patent Grant
Nuclear rocket engine with pebble fuel source
- Patent number 10,414,521
- Issue date Sep 17, 2019
- HARDY ENGINEERING & MANUFACTURING, INC.
- Richard Hardy
- B64 - AIRCRAFT AVIATION COSMONAUTICS
Information Patent Grant
Injection system and method for injecting a cylindrical array of li...
- Patent number 10,415,552
- Issue date Sep 17, 2019
- The Boeing Company
- Jeffery S. Anderson
- B64 - AIRCRAFT AVIATION COSMONAUTICS
Information Patent Grant
Spacecraft landing and site-to-site transport for a planet, moon or...
- Patent number 10,384,813
- Issue date Aug 20, 2019
- Jerome Drexler
- B64 - AIRCRAFT AVIATION COSMONAUTICS
Information Patent Grant
Interplanetary spacecraft using fusion-powered constant-acceleratio...
- Patent number 10,377,511
- Issue date Aug 13, 2019
- Jerome Drexler
- B64 - AIRCRAFT AVIATION COSMONAUTICS
Information Patent Grant
Interplanetary spacecraft using fusion-powered thrust
- Patent number 10,322,826
- Issue date Jun 18, 2019
- Jerome Drexler
- B64 - AIRCRAFT AVIATION COSMONAUTICS
Information Patent Grant
Space modular reactor for propulsion (SMR-P)
- Patent number 10,124,916
- Issue date Nov 13, 2018
- Homi Nasrollah Amirmokri
- G21 - NUCLEAR PHYSICS NUCLEAR ENGINEERING
Information Patent Grant
Nanofuel internal engine
- Patent number 9,947,423
- Issue date Apr 17, 2018
- Global Energy Research Associates, LLC
- Mark Lloyd Adams
- B64 - AIRCRAFT AVIATION COSMONAUTICS
Information Patent Grant
Nuclear powered rotary internal engine apparatus
- Patent number 9,881,706
- Issue date Jan 30, 2018
- Global Energy Research Associates, LLC
- Mark Lloyd Adams
- B64 - AIRCRAFT AVIATION COSMONAUTICS
Information Patent Grant
Method and apparatus to produce high specific impulse and moderate...
- Patent number 9,822,769
- Issue date Nov 21, 2017
- Princeton Satellite Systems
- Samuel A. Cohen
- B64 - AIRCRAFT AVIATION COSMONAUTICS
Information Patent Grant
Apparatus and methods for fusion based power generation and engine...
- Patent number 9,524,802
- Issue date Dec 20, 2016
- MSNW LLC
- John Thomas Slough
- B64 - AIRCRAFT AVIATION COSMONAUTICS

Patents Applicationslast 30 patents

Information Patent Application
Mixed Particle Nuclear Reactions
- Publication number 20240420859
- Publication date Dec 19, 2024
- Roger X. Lenard
- G21 - NUCLEAR PHYSICS NUCLEAR ENGINEERING
Information Patent Application
CERMET FUEL ELEMENT AND FABRICATION AND APPLICATIONS THEREOF, INCLU...
- Publication number 20240412882
- Publication date Dec 12, 2024
- BWXT Nuclear Energy, Inc.
- James D. JOGERST
- B22 - CASTING POWDER METALLURGY
Information Patent Application
System and Method to Employ Centrifugal Confinement Fusion for In-S...
- Publication number 20240347218
- Publication date Oct 17, 2024
- Raymond John Sedwick
- G21 - NUCLEAR PHYSICS NUCLEAR ENGINEERING
Information Patent Application
Customizable Thin Plate Fuel Form and Reactor Core Therefor
- Publication number 20240290509
- Publication date Aug 29, 2024
- HOWE INDUSTRIES, LLC
- Troy M. HOWE
- B64 - AIRCRAFT AVIATION COSMONAUTICS
Information Patent Application
NUCLEAR THERMAL PROPULSION SYSTEM WITH REACTOR DIRECT DRIVE OF CRYO...
- Publication number 20240278938
- Publication date Aug 22, 2024
- Blue Origin, LLC
- Zachary Reid Tolley
- G21 - NUCLEAR PHYSICS NUCLEAR ENGINEERING
Information Patent Application
Systems and methods for in-space fusion reactor cooling
- Publication number 20240127971
- Publication date Apr 18, 2024
- Adam Priest
- G21 - NUCLEAR PHYSICS NUCLEAR ENGINEERING
Information Patent Application
NUCLEAR THERMAL PROPULSION SYSTEM WITH REACTOR DIRECT DRIVE OF CRYO...
- Publication number 20230415926
- Publication date Dec 28, 2023
- Blue Origin, LLC
- Zachary Reid Tolley
- G21 - NUCLEAR PHYSICS NUCLEAR ENGINEERING
Information Patent Application
CARBIDE-BASED FUEL ASSEMBLY FOR THERMAL PROPULSION APPLICATIONS
- Publication number 20230317305
- Publication date Oct 5, 2023
- BWXT Advanced Technologies LLC
- Eric A. BARRINGER
- G21 - NUCLEAR PHYSICS NUCLEAR ENGINEERING
Information Patent Application
FUEL BUNDLE WITH TWISTED RIBBON FUEL RODLETS FOR NUCLEAR THERMAL PR...
- Publication number 20230282373
- Publication date Sep 7, 2023
- BWXT Advanced Technologies LLC
- Benjamin D. FISHER
- G21 - NUCLEAR PHYSICS NUCLEAR ENGINEERING
Information Patent Application
COMBINED AMMONIA-BASED MODERATOR AND PROPELLANT FOR NUCLEAR THERMAL...
- Publication number 20230211898
- Publication date Jul 6, 2023
- ULTRA SAFE NUCLEAR CORPORATION
- Michael John Eades
- G21 - NUCLEAR PHYSICS NUCLEAR ENGINEERING
Information Patent Application
ADJUSTING WAIT TIME BETWEEN BURN CYCLES OR MERGING BURN CYCLES
- Publication number 20220375641
- Publication date Nov 24, 2022
- ULTRA SAFE NUCLEAR CORPORATION
- Paolo Francesco Venneri
- G21 - NUCLEAR PHYSICS NUCLEAR ENGINEERING
Information Patent Application
Space-Based Radioisotope Production and Methods of Use
- Publication number 20220367077
- Publication date Nov 17, 2022
- Atomos Nuclear and Space Corporation
- Lucas Brady Beveridge
- G21 - NUCLEAR PHYSICS NUCLEAR ENGINEERING
Information Patent Application
NTAC Augmented Nuclear Electric Propulsion and/or Nuclear Thermal P...
- Publication number 20220267031
- Publication date Aug 25, 2022
- United States of America as represented by the Administrator of NASA
- SANG H. CHOI
- G21 - NUCLEAR PHYSICS NUCLEAR ENGINEERING
Information Patent Application
CERMET FUEL ELEMENT AND FABRICATION AND APPLICATIONS THEREOF, INCLU...
- Publication number 20220115151
- Publication date Apr 14, 2022
- BWXT Advanced Technologies LLC
- James D. JOGERST
- B22 - CASTING POWDER METALLURGY
Information Patent Application
CARBIDE-BASED FUEL ASSEMBLY FOR THERMAL PROPULSION APPLICATIONS
- Publication number 20220115152
- Publication date Apr 14, 2022
- BWXT Advanced Technologies LLC
- Eric A. BARRINGER
- G21 - NUCLEAR PHYSICS NUCLEAR ENGINEERING
Information Patent Application
OPTO-MECHANIC DRIVEN LASER-BORON FUSION FOR DRIVING OF SPACECRAFTS
- Publication number 20220055774
- Publication date Feb 24, 2022
- Heinrich HORA
- B64 - AIRCRAFT AVIATION COSMONAUTICS
Information Patent Application
NUCLEAR REACTOR PLENUM PLATE STANDOFF SPOOLS
- Publication number 20210094706
- Publication date Apr 1, 2021
- BWXT Nuclear Energy, Inc.
- James B. Inman
- B64 - AIRCRAFT AVIATION COSMONAUTICS
Information Patent Application
STEERING MECHANISM AND METHOD FOR MICRO-FUSION-POWERED AIR AND SPAC...
- Publication number 20200317375
- Publication date Oct 8, 2020
- Jerome Drexler
- B64 - AIRCRAFT AVIATION COSMONAUTICS
Information Patent Application
Radioactive decay propulsion and electrical device
- Publication number 20200299007
- Publication date Sep 24, 2020
- Ronald Lee Bennett
- B64 - AIRCRAFT AVIATION COSMONAUTICS
Information Patent Application
PASSIVE REACTIVITY CONTROL OF NUCLEAR THERMAL PROPULSION REACTORS
- Publication number 20200273588
- Publication date Aug 27, 2020
- ULTRA SAFE NUCLEAR CORPORATION
- Paolo Francesco VENNERI
- B64 - AIRCRAFT AVIATION COSMONAUTICS
Information Patent Application
SINGLE-STAGE CRAFT AND METHOD FOR INTERPLANETARY SPACE TRAVEL
- Publication number 20200269997
- Publication date Aug 27, 2020
- Jerome Drexler
- B64 - AIRCRAFT AVIATION COSMONAUTICS
Information Patent Application
MICRO-FUSION-POWERED AIR AND SPACE CRAFT
- Publication number 20200231309
- Publication date Jul 23, 2020
- Jerome Drexler
- B64 - AIRCRAFT AVIATION COSMONAUTICS
Information Patent Application
MICRO-FUSION-POWERED UNMANNED CRAFT
- Publication number 20200148324
- Publication date May 14, 2020
- Jerome Drexler
- B64 - AIRCRAFT AVIATION COSMONAUTICS
Information Patent Application
SPACECRAFT COLLISION-AVOIDANCE PROPULSION SYSTEM AND METHOD
- Publication number 20200062426
- Publication date Feb 27, 2020
- Jerome Drexler
- G21 - NUCLEAR PHYSICS NUCLEAR ENGINEERING
Information Patent Application
MICRO-FUSION-ENHANCED HYBRID PROPULSION FOR HIGH-ALTITUDE AIRCRAFT...
- Publication number 20190355485
- Publication date Nov 21, 2019
- Jerome Drexler
- G21 - NUCLEAR PHYSICS NUCLEAR ENGINEERING
Information Patent Application
NUCLEAR THERMAL PROPULSION ROCKET ENGINE
- Publication number 20190315498
- Publication date Oct 17, 2019
- HARDY ENGINEERING & MANUFACTURING, INC.
- Richard HARDY
- B64 - AIRCRAFT AVIATION COSMONAUTICS
Information Patent Application
ASTEROID REDIRECTION AND SOFT LANDING FACILITATED BY COSMIC RAY AND...
- Publication number 20190168896
- Publication date Jun 6, 2019
- Jerome Drexler
- F42 - AMMUNITION BLASTING
Information Patent Application
CUSTOMIZABLE THIN PLATE FUEL FORM AND REACTOR CORE THEREFOR
- Publication number 20190108920
- Publication date Apr 11, 2019
- TROY M. HOWE
- B64 - AIRCRAFT AVIATION COSMONAUTICS
Information Patent Application
INTERPLANETARY SPACECRAFT USING FUSION-POWERED THRUST
- Publication number 20180273214
- Publication date Sep 27, 2018
- Jerome Drexler
- B64 - AIRCRAFT AVIATION COSMONAUTICS
Information Patent Application
INJECTION SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR INJECTING A CYLINDRICAL ARRAY OF LI...
- Publication number 20180223815
- Publication date Aug 9, 2018
- The Boeing Company
- Jeffery S. Anderson
- B64 - AIRCRAFT AVIATION COSMONAUTICS

Nuclear spacecraft propulsion

Industry

Parent Industries

Current Industry

Patents Grantslast 30 patents

NTAC augmented nuclear electric propulsion and/or nuclear thermal p...

Robust nuclear propulsion fission reactor with tri-pitch patterned...

Nuclear thermal propulsion system with reactor direct drive of cryo...

Cermet fuel element and fabrication and applications thereof, inclu...

Customizable thin plate fuel form and reactor core therefor

Reactor rocket engine

Plenum plate standoff spools for separating a pair of plenum plates...

Carbide-based fuel assembly for thermal propulsion applications

Carbide-based fuel assembly for thermal propulsion applications

Method of using nanofuel in a nanofuel internal engine

Variable propellant density for passive reactivity control of nucle...

Nuclear thermal propulsion nuclear reactor interface structure

Customizable thin plate fuel form and reactor core therefor

Spacecraft-module habitats and bases

Micro-fusion-powered unmanned craft

Spacecraft collision-avoidance propulsion system and method

Asteroid redirection and soft landing facilitated by cosmic ray and...

In space startup method for nuclear fusion rocket engines

Passive reactivity control of nuclear thermal propulsion reactors

Fuel retention reactor for nuclear rocket engine

Nuclear rocket engine with pebble fuel source

Injection system and method for injecting a cylindrical array of li...

Spacecraft landing and site-to-site transport for a planet, moon or...

Interplanetary spacecraft using fusion-powered constant-acceleratio...

Interplanetary spacecraft using fusion-powered thrust

Space modular reactor for propulsion (SMR-P)

Nanofuel internal engine

Nuclear powered rotary internal engine apparatus

Method and apparatus to produce high specific impulse and moderate...

Apparatus and methods for fusion based power generation and engine...

Patents Applicationslast 30 patents

Mixed Particle Nuclear Reactions

CERMET FUEL ELEMENT AND FABRICATION AND APPLICATIONS THEREOF, INCLU...

System and Method to Employ Centrifugal Confinement Fusion for In-S...

Customizable Thin Plate Fuel Form and Reactor Core Therefor

NUCLEAR THERMAL PROPULSION SYSTEM WITH REACTOR DIRECT DRIVE OF CRYO...

Systems and methods for in-space fusion reactor cooling

NUCLEAR THERMAL PROPULSION SYSTEM WITH REACTOR DIRECT DRIVE OF CRYO...

CARBIDE-BASED FUEL ASSEMBLY FOR THERMAL PROPULSION APPLICATIONS

FUEL BUNDLE WITH TWISTED RIBBON FUEL RODLETS FOR NUCLEAR THERMAL PR...

COMBINED AMMONIA-BASED MODERATOR AND PROPELLANT FOR NUCLEAR THERMAL...

ADJUSTING WAIT TIME BETWEEN BURN CYCLES OR MERGING BURN CYCLES

Space-Based Radioisotope Production and Methods of Use

NTAC Augmented Nuclear Electric Propulsion and/or Nuclear Thermal P...

CERMET FUEL ELEMENT AND FABRICATION AND APPLICATIONS THEREOF, INCLU...

CARBIDE-BASED FUEL ASSEMBLY FOR THERMAL PROPULSION APPLICATIONS

OPTO-MECHANIC DRIVEN LASER-BORON FUSION FOR DRIVING OF SPACECRAFTS

NUCLEAR REACTOR PLENUM PLATE STANDOFF SPOOLS

STEERING MECHANISM AND METHOD FOR MICRO-FUSION-POWERED AIR AND SPAC...

Radioactive decay propulsion and electrical device

PASSIVE REACTIVITY CONTROL OF NUCLEAR THERMAL PROPULSION REACTORS

SINGLE-STAGE CRAFT AND METHOD FOR INTERPLANETARY SPACE TRAVEL

MICRO-FUSION-POWERED AIR AND SPACE CRAFT

MICRO-FUSION-POWERED UNMANNED CRAFT

SPACECRAFT COLLISION-AVOIDANCE PROPULSION SYSTEM AND METHOD

MICRO-FUSION-ENHANCED HYBRID PROPULSION FOR HIGH-ALTITUDE AIRCRAFT...

NUCLEAR THERMAL PROPULSION ROCKET ENGINE

ASTEROID REDIRECTION AND SOFT LANDING FACILITATED BY COSMIC RAY AND...

CUSTOMIZABLE THIN PLATE FUEL FORM AND REACTOR CORE THEREFOR

INTERPLANETARY SPACECRAFT USING FUSION-POWERED THRUST

INJECTION SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR INJECTING A CYLINDRICAL ARRAY OF LI...