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Future space missions could have new options opened up by nuclear technology, experts attending an International Atomic Energy Agency event have said.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Tuesday, 22 February 2022
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Nuclear-power-in-space-is-focus-of-IAEA-and-UN-eve
Russia's state space agency Roscosmos on 22 May presented the design of future satellites and orbital stations equipped with space nuclear-powered tug technology at the New Knowledge forum in Moscow.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Tuesday, 25 May 2021
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsrussia-designs-satellites-and-orbital-stations-based-on-nuclear-powered-tug-technology-8766433
The US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) announced on 2 August that it had awarded BWXT Nuclear Energy (a subsidiary of BWX Technologies) a three-year $18.8m contract to begin conceptual designs for a nuclear thermal propulsion (NTP) reactor in support of a possible future manned mission to Mars. Researchers at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Alabama, say nuclear thermal propulsion technologies are more promising than ever, and BWXT Nuclear Energy has been contracted “to further advance and refine those concepts”.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Thursday, 10 August 2017
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsbwxt-wins-nasa-contract-to-design-nuclear-thermal-propulsion-reactor-5897596
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has awarded BWXT Nuclear Energy a $18.8 million contract to initiate conceptual designs for a nuclear thermal propulsion reactor in support of a possible future manned mission to Mars. BWXT Nuclear Energy is a subsidiary of nuclear components, fuel and services provider BWX Technologies, which is based in Lynchburg, Virginia.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Friday, 04 August 2017
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/NASA-boosts-nuclear-thermal-propulsion-with BWXT-c