NUCLEAR POWER AND PROPULSION IN SPACE

10kBq jaro

IMO, this concept is ridiculous -- fly to Mars for half-a-year, just to do a 45-minute flight ??!! ...put a little open-cycle nuke-heated turbojet on the darn thing and fly it for at least a week ! ...and if you can't do it in the US, pay somebody in India to build it for you ! http://www.avia...

Larry

First thanks for the article on the TRITON! Enjoyed it quite a bit. So I have to ask. I have always played with the thought experiment of attempting to design a SSTO with nuclear technology (note not just for propulsion). The Liberty ship was cool, but it was missing some items - but this TRIT...

Michael

Does anyone know if any of the ideas to use nuclear power directly to power a space craft are being looked at on any serious level? There is the Americium powered rocket that uses direct fission of the element americium to support a continuos nuclear explosion/reaction to propel the space craft and th...

Jefferson Morris

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory is evaluating industry proposals for the preliminary design of the Jupiter Icy Moons Orbiter (JIMO) spacecraft, in anticipation of awarding a contract by October. Teams led by Lockheed Martin, Boeing and Northrop Grumman submitted their final proposals l...

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	Mars UAV Proposals (Preview) IMO, this concept is ridiculous -- fly to Mars for half-a-year, just to do a 45-minute flight ??!! ...put a little open-cycle nuke-heated turbojet on the darn thing and fly it for at least a week ! ...and if you can't do it in the US, pay somebody in India to build it for you ! http://www.avia...	10kBq jaro	1	783	Nov 19, 2004 by GoogleNaut
	Bulding a nuclear SSTO (Triton?) (Preview) First thanks for the article on the TRITON! Enjoyed it quite a bit. So I have to ask. I have always played with the thought experiment of attempting to design a SSTO with nuclear technology (note not just for propulsion). The Liberty ship was cool, but it was missing some items - but this TRIT...	Larry	10	1268	Oct 22, 2004 by 10kBq jaro
	Nuclear rocket research (Preview) Does anyone know if any of the ideas to use nuclear power directly to power a space craft are being looked at on any serious level? There is the Americium powered rocket that uses direct fission of the element americium to support a continuos nuclear explosion/reaction to propel the space craft and th...	Michael	3	802	Oct 6, 2004 by Phil
	NASA Evaluating Industry Proposals For JIMO probe (Preview) NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory is evaluating industry proposals for the preliminary design of the Jupiter Icy Moons Orbiter (JIMO) spacecraft, in anticipation of awarding a contract by October. Teams led by Lockheed Martin, Boeing and Northrop Grumman submitted their final proposals l...	Jefferson Morris	4	1338	Sep 30, 2004 by publiusr
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