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Nuclear Power In Space - Part 2 Moscow, Russia (RIA Novosti) Aug 16, 2007 
Nuclear power could greatly contribute to spacecraft capabilities. The Soviet Union first developed nuclear powered generators for spacecraft in the 1960s. Since 1970 it has launched more than 30 military radar satellites equipped with the Buk unit, which can generate up to 3 kW of electricity.
In 1987-1988, the Topol unit (Topaz), with a generating capacity of 6 kW, was successfully fligh ... read more |
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Nuclear Power In Space
Moscow, Russia (RIA Novosti) Aug 15, 2007Solar energy supplies most of power in spacecraft nowadays. Although the efficiency of solar cells has grown substantially recently, they have reached the limit of their development and can supply electricity only in near-Earth orbits and for satellite-borne equipment. Such large-scale projects as the exploration of the Moon or a manned mission to Mars require nuclear power plants. ... more Outside View: Nuclear future in space
Moscow (UPI) Aug 14, 2007 Solar energy supplies most of power in spacecraft nowadays. Although the efficiency of solar cells has grown substantially recently, they have reached the limit of their development and can supply electricity only in near-Earth orbits and for satellite-borne equipment. Such large-scale projects as the exploration of the moon or a manned mission to Mars require nuclear power plants. more Could NASA Get To Pluto Faster? Space Expert Says Yes - By Thinking Nuclear 
Washington DC (SPX) Jan 30, 2006As NASA's New Horizons spacecraft winds its way on a nine-year journey toward Pluto and the outer solar system, at least one expert wonders why such missions need to take so long. Paul A. Czysz, a 30-year veteran of the industry, continuing consultant to the U.S. military and professor emeritus of aerospace engineering at St. Louis University, thinks NASA can curb the travel time to the oute ... more NASA plans to send new robot to Jupiter 
Washington (UPI) March 29, 2004NASA's new strategy for sending humans back to the moon or onward to Mars includes employing a race of advanced robots -- some of which will be tested within five years -- on interplanetary jaunts to the farthest locations in the solar system. The new robotic probes will be fueled by a new generation of rockets powered by a new class of atomic powerplants that will give the spacecraft unprec ... more Los Alamos Hopes To Lead New Era Of Nuclear Space Tranportion With Jovian Mission
Albuquerque - Feb 11, 2004A planned U.S. mission to investigate three ice-covered moons of Jupiter will demand fast-paced research, fabrication and realistic non-nuclear testing of a prototype nuclear reactor within two years, says a Los Alamos National Laboratory scientist. The roots of this build and test effort have been under way at Los Alamos since the mid-1990s, said David Poston, leader of the Space Fission Po ... more |
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New Orleans - Mar 25, 2003For the first time since 1987, new high-purity plutonium sources for use as primary analytical chemistry standards have been produced at Los Alamos National Laboratory using a new extrusion method developed at the Laboratory. The techniques and equipment used in the fabrication of the new plutonium sources will be the topic of a talk by Gerald Coriz of the Laboratory's Nuclear Materials Tech ... more |
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