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Isaac Ji Kuo Feb 9, 2024

Thorium 228 Atomic Sail drive proposed for 150km/s missions

James Bickford of Charles Stark Draper Laboratory proposes a Thin Film Isotope Nuclear Engine Rocket (TFINER) for probes suitable for outer solar system missions and missions to interstellar interloper objects.

https://www.nasa.gov/general/thin-film-isotope-nuclear-engine-rocket/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=16Mq7q5797E

#SpaceTechnology #AtomicRocket

@nyrath

Thin Film Isotope Nuclear Engine Rocket (TFINER) - NASA

Thin Film Isotope Nuclear Engine Rocket

NASA

Lazarou Monkey Terror 🚀💙🌈Jan 24, 2023

Sexy news for the #AtomicRocket nerds out there, I see ya!
Look at those radiators, pwoar!
"Jan 24, 2023
RELEASE 23-012
#NASA, #DARPA Will Test Nuclear Engine for Future Mars Missions"

https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-darpa-will-test-nuclear-engine-for-future-mars-missions

NASA, DARPA Will Test Nuclear Engine for Future Mars Missions

NASA and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) announced Tuesday a collaboration to demonstrate a nuclear thermal rocket engine in space, an enabling capability for NASA crewed missions to Mars.

NASA

Winchell Chung ⚛🚀Dec 9, 2022

from @casillic

Theoretical Studies Of The Re-Entry Of Plutonium Fuel
( i.e., if your nuclear reactor equipped spaceship burns up in re-entry, how widespread will be the radioactive fallout?)

https://t.co/eNnl0IATF9 [PDF file]
#Radiation #Fallout #SpaceShip #AtomicRocket