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US military gives Lockheed Martin $33.7 million to develop nuclear spacecraft (www.space.com)
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US military gives Lockheed Martin $33.7 million to develop nuclear spacecraft::The U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory just awarded $33.7 million to Lockheed Martin to advance the development of space nuclear propulsion and power tech.

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[โ€“] elderflower 27 points 1 year ago (1 children)

A working nuclear thermal propulsion (NTP) engine was already built in the 60s under NASA's NERVA project. It is one of the highest technological readiness level solutions we have to the dilemma of high specific impulse versus high thrust present in the current spsce engine technologies. Imo we need something like this to make manned interplanetary missions viable.

[โ€“] Siegfried 5 points 1 year ago

NTP was just a fachade, what NERV was actually researching was the human instrumentality project, I saw it in a robots documental