NASA is repurposing the Advanced Electric Propulsion System to support its SR-1 nuclear reactor program.
Credit: NASA Glenn Research Center
Driven by an urgent U.S. government mandate to develop space nuclear power and propulsion, NASA is leading a whole-of-government charge to accelerate the deployment of reactors on the Moon and in orbit. But after six decades of stop-start development since the experimental SNAP-10 reactor launched...
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