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NASA sees a future with nuclear power | Physics Today

Exhaust velocity can be up to 10 times higher than in conventional rockets, but the quantity of exhaust, proportional to the thrust force, is ...

NASA sees a future with nuclear power | Physics Today

NASA is developing reactors for spacecraft propulsion and for a planetary power source, with the goal of having both available for a crewed ...

Nuclear goes to the moon | Duke Energy

Although delayed, many in the nuclear industry are watching NASA's Artemis project for what we can learn as they develop the fission surface ...

NASA, DARPA Will Test Nuclear Engine for Future Mars Missions

DARPA is acting as the contracting authority for the development of the entire stage and the engine, which includes the reactor. DARPA will lead ...

NASA wants to put a nuclear power plant on the moon by 2030

The reactor will help sustain future missions on the moon, Mars and beyond, according to NASA.

Space Nuclear Propulsion - NASA

NASA and DARPA intend to demonstrate a nuclear thermal propulsion rocket engine in space as soon as 2027. In February 2021, NASA and the Department of Energy ( ...

Why NASA thinks nuclear reactors could supply power for human ...

NASA is developing a nuclear reactor (shown in this artist's rendition) that could power a human settlement on the moon.

What is your vision for the future of nuclear use - Reddit

Nuclear is a super long term energy source. Renewables can scale quickly to displace fossil fuels over the coming decade, but they will run into ...

NASA wraps up 1st phase of moon nuclear reactor project | Space

NASA is wrapping up the design phase of a project to develop concepts for a small, electricity-generating nuclear fission reactor for use on ...

Nuclear-powered spacecraft: why dreams of atomic rockets are back ...

Air-breathing rocket engines: the future of space flight ... Elsewhere, researchers at Idaho National Laboratory in the US are helping NASA ...

NASA wants to put nuclear reactors on the Moon to power a future ...

Earlier this year, the space agency and US Department of Energy announced they were seeking proposals for a nuclear thermal propulsion system ...

Nuclear Power: Now More Than Ever, Or Never? – NSS

Update: Both the Prometheus program and the Jupiter Icy Moons Orbiter (JIMO) were cancelled in late 2005. For NASA, it had been a long time in coming—permission ...

NASA Announces Artemis Concept Awards for Nuclear Power on ...

NASA and the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) are working together to advance space nuclear technologies. The agencies have selected three ...

Nuclear technology for future space missions

With nuclear power and its related technologies, interplanetary missions will be faster, more efficient and economical.

NASA plans for lunar fission power systems face fiscal challenges

Advocates of nuclear power systems for lunar exploration are calling on NASA to find ways to continue work amid fiscal challenges and ...

The use of nuclear power in deep space exploration

Another area of space is likely to see the arrival of new nuclear-based technologies in the coming decade: space propulsion. In this field, the ...

NASA Tests New Nuclear Reactor For Future Space Travelers - NPR

NASA and the US Department of Energy say they have successfully tested a new type of nuclear reactor that could one day provide juice to colonies on other ...

Why NASA wants to put a nuclear power plant on the moon - CNBC

NASA and the U.S. Department of Energy will seek proposals from industry to build nuclear power plants on the moon and Mars to support its long- ...

NASA Fission Instrumentation and Controls Workshop

NASA is leading efforts to conduct a technology demonstration mission of a 40 kWe lunar Fission Surface Power (FSP) system and to advance Space Nuclear ...

Navigating Space Nuclear Safety: The Role Of The Nuclear ...

These systems include the radioisotope thermoelectric generators (RTG) that powered Mars Science Lab 2011, Mars 2020, and that will power the upcoming Dragonfly ...