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LadyButterfly she/her@piefed.blahaj.zone to Good News Everyone@piefed.socialEnglish · 6 months ago

Nuclear rocket could slash mission times to Mars

www.independent.co.uk

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Nuclear rocket could slash mission times to Mars

www.independent.co.uk

LadyButterfly she/her@piefed.blahaj.zone to Good News Everyone@piefed.socialEnglish · 6 months ago
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Centrifugal nuclear thermal rocket can travel faster with less fuel
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  • SGGeorwell@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    First heard about this from Carl Sagan’s Cosmos, 1980.

  • Eheran@lemmy.world
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    Blablabla with no mention how it actually works.

    • LyD@lemmy.ca
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      It links a paper that explains it! https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0094576525002838

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        Oh, I get an error:

        There was a problem providing the content you requested Please contact our support team for more information and provide the details below.

        • LyD@lemmy.ca
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          I read some of it and decided to look up Nuclear Thermal Propulsion on Wikipedia: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_thermal_rocket

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          It works for me. Maybe try clicking the link from inside the article?

          • Eheran@lemmy.world
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            Works now. Thank you.

  • sad_detective_man@sopuli.xyz
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    I take it this is not the one that runs on uranium and brinewater

    • xylol@leminal.space
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      You drink your nuclear brine water and like it

  • SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca
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    I’d like to see these blowing up over Florida.

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    Yay

  • Phoenixz@lemmy.ca
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    Yeah, this is a hypothetical we’ve known about since the 60’s, and this won’t be a reality for decades, if ever.

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