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

Image caption: Artist’s concept of a Bimodal Nuclear Thermal Rocket in Low Earth Orbit. Image credit: NASA. Article by Matt Williams. Universe Today – January 17, 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 be joined by other nations before long. These and other missions that will take astronauts beyond Low Earth Orbit (LEO) and the Earth-Moon system require new technologies, ranging from life support and radiation shielding to power and propulsion. And when it comes to the latter, Nuclear Thermal and Nuclear Electric Propulsion (NTP/NEP) is a top contender! […]

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