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Nukes in Space

Artists’s Conception of Jupiter Icy Moons Orbiter mission for Prometheus, with the reactor on the right, providing power to ion engines and electronics. – Public Domain

Decisions on a Nuclear Future are Guided by Myths

February 21, 2023
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| NASA, Nukes in Space, Space Force

By Linda Pentz Gunter, Published by CounterPunch, 21 February 2023 Last month I rushed through the august halls of the British parliament in Westminster, on my way to a briefing on small modular reactors for Members of the Welsh Affairs Select Committee. Running late though I was, it was tempting

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NASA and DARPA are working on a nuclear-powered rocket that could go to Mars

February 3, 2023
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| Mars missions, Nukes in Space, Russia, Ukraine

By Christian Davenport, Published by The Washington Post, 3 February 2023 When NASA’s Orion spacecraft returned to Earth from its trip around the moon last month, it was moving blazingly fast, nearly 25,000 mph, or 32 times the speed of sound. On a trip to the moon, a mere 240,000

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Rolls-Royce unveils early-stage design for space nuclear reactor

February 1, 2023
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| Mars missions, Moon missions, NASA, Nukes in Space, UK

By Elizabeth Howell, Published by Space.com, 1 February 2023 The company is working with the UK Space Agency for nuclear power and propulsion options in spaceflight. A new image shows a possible version of future space propulsion. Nuclear fission systems, which harness the energy released in the splitting of atoms,

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Artist's concept of a Bimodal Nuclear Thermal Rocket in Low Earth Orbit. Credit: NASA

New Nuclear Rocket Design to Send Missions to Mars in Just 45 Days

January 17, 2023
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Published by Universe Today, 17 January 2023 We live in an era of renewed space exploration, where multiple agencies are planning to send astronauts to the Moon in the coming years. This will be followed in the next decade with crewed missions to Mars by NASA and China, who may

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Nuclear fusion breakthrough: What does it mean for space exploration?

December 15, 2022
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| Mars missions, Nukes in Space, Rockets

By Leonard David, Published by Space.com, 15 December 2022 Some scientists say nuclear fusion propulsion is inevitable. But how far away is it, given recent breakthroughs? The announcement this week of fusion ignition is a major scientific advancement, one that is decades in the making. More energy was produced than

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The Navy’s fusion plans could produce a world-shattering weapon

December 13, 2022
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| Nukes in Space, Space Weapons

By Alex Hollings, Published by Sandboxx, 13 December 2022 In 2019, the U.S. Navy’s Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division (NAWCAD) filed a number of seemingly out-of-this-world patents that could, in theory, revolutionize not only military aviation, but just about everything. Chief among these strange new inventions is a High

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World’s first space battery powered by ‘game-changing’ nuclear fuel is coming soon

December 10, 2022
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By Baba Tamim, Published by Interesting Engineering, 10 December 2022 The world's first space battery fueled by Americium-241, a nuclear-based fuel, will be developed in cooperation between the National Nuclear Laboratory (NNL) and the U.K. Space Agency. This project will be carried out in a brand-new laboratory in Cumbria costing

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UK Space Agency and NNL work on world’s first space battery powered by British fuel

December 9, 2022
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UK Gov Press Release, 9 December 2022 The UK Space Agency and the National Nuclear Laboratory (NNL) are to collaborate on the world’s first space battery powered by Americium-241. This work, commissioned and funded by the UK Space Agency from NNL, will be delivered in a new £19 million laboratory

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