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US To Test Nuclear-powered Spacecraft by 2027

mardi 24 janvier 2023, 22:21 , par Slashdot
The United States plans to test a spacecraft engine powered by nuclear fission by 2027 as part of a long-term NASA effort to demonstrate more efficient methods of propelling astronauts to Mars in the future, the space agency's chief said Tuesday. From a report: NASA will partner with the U.S. military's research and development agency, DARPA, to develop a nuclear thermal propulsion engine and launch it to space 'as soon as 2027,' NASA administrator Bill Nelson said during a conference in National Harbor, Maryland.

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