nuclear propulsion
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Pentagon Awards Lockheed Martin $US33.7 Million for Nuclear Spacecraft Project
Lockheed Martin is at the early stages of developing a nuclear propulsion system to power a spacecraft through the depths of the cosmos. Under a $US33.7 million contract from the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL), Lockheed Martin announced that it was in the “preliminary design review stage” of the Joint Emergent Technology Supplying On-Orbit Nuclear…
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Ford’s Nuclear-Powered 1962 Concept Car Is a Fascinating Atomic-Age Fantasy
The late ’50s and early ’60s gave us some fascinating flights of design fancy in an era of unprecedented American optimism. Ford recent opened its Heritage Vault, full of nearly a century of archived material. It’s a reminder that the auto industry was at the forefront of sci-fi daydreams in the Jet Age. For instance,…
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NASA Wants to Put a Nuclear Reactor on the Moon
NASA is teaming up with the U.S. Department of Energy’s Idaho National Laboratory to develop a non-solar power source on the Moon by the year 2030. But they need some help with the details.