[ExI] New nuclear rocket engine design

[Dan TheBookMan]

On Sun, Oct 25, 2020 at 4:50 PM Adrian Tymes via extropy-chat
<extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 25, 2020 at 3:43 AM BillK via extropy-chat <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
>> There appears to be increasing interest in nuclear thermal propulsion rockets!
>
> Now if only we could get high thrust-to-weight (at least 10) closed cycle (as in
> "no nuclear exhaust") engines, that would be suitable for in-atmosphere/Earth
> -to-orbit use.  One step at a time, though...

Yes, one step at a time. At least, the ISS might be used as a 'dry
dock' to build nuclear propulsion rockets on orbit for interplanetary
missions. In that way, maybe the ISS wouldn't have been an almost
complete waste of effort.

Regards,

Dan
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