NASA’s SR-1 Freedom Advances with Progress on Nuclear Power Module
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NASA's Space Reactor-1 (SR-1) Freedom, announced during the agency's "Ignition" event, is intended to become humanity's first fission-powered spacecraft to travel beyond Earth orbit, with a destination of Mars and beyond. Development is progressing on the mission's nuclear power module, a key element for demonstrating nuclear electric propulsion in deep space.
Destined for Mars and beyond, NASA’s Space Reactor-1 (SR-1) Freedom will be humanity’s first fission-powered spacecraft to travel outside Earth’s orbit. Announced during NASA’s “Ignition” event, this mission will demonstrate nuclear electric propulsion in deep space, and progress is underway on its key element: the nuclear power module. To expedite development of the spacecraft, NASA […]
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