Nuclear Thermal Propulsion Development

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Nuclear Rockets Could Take Us to Mars in Half the Time. NASA Plans to Fly One by 2027.

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Nuclear thermal propulsion could one day power a rocket that makes the trip in just half the time.

Nuclear fission involves harvesting the incredible amount of energy released when an atom is split by a neutron.

NASA and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency are jointly developing NTP technology.

They plan to deploy and demonstrate a prototype system in space in 2027 .

The nuclear thermal propulsion engine will differ from all existing fission power systems, so engineers will need to build software tools that work with this new engine.

Simulating these effects can take a lot of expensive computing power.

My colleagues and I hope this research can one day help develop models that could one day control the rocket.

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