Nuclear-powered rockets? 🚀 NASA said this week its partnership with the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) will yield a nuclear-powered rocket as soon as 2027 with the goal of “a shorter, faster trip” to Mars.
Nuclear fission rockets like the one being developed work by splitting atoms and releasing that energy, the same basic process power plants use.
Dodson leads the program called the Demonstration Rocket for Agile Cislunar Operations program. “There are no facilities to test this rocket on the ground,” she said. Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville is also one of the NASA centers contributing to the new effort, a spokesman said today. “We have a lead role with it,” NASA aerospace engineer Jason Turpin toldin a March story about rocket engines of the future. “We are NASA’s space nuclear propulsion lead.”
Nuclear powered engines are “much more efficient, two or three times” that traditionally fueled engines, she said.
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