A new nuclear fuel has been tested for spacecraft, this news was published on January 20, the nuclear fuel that has been tested can power different types of engines, the image shows what a ship that travels to Mars could look like, It is based a little on the Orion ship and an extension, but this fuel could also power engines installed on, for example, a StarShip.
It must be taken into account that the propulsion to leave the earth or Mars or the moon is not the same as what you need or what may be most useful to propel you through space may be completely different, the Orion project that By the way, Freeman Dyson, a prodigy, was involved, proposing that a ship powered by nuclear explosions.
A ship whose engines were nuclear explosions could easily leave the earth, but the environmental damage would be serious and there would be many deaths due to radioactivity, it could be used in space, but you would also have to have a hyper resistant ship, in the end this project was only intended to be used in space, period, in fact, well outside, not only in space but quite far from the earth because it was calculated that this type of explosions could also accept the Earth's magnetic field, so it would be something possibly limited.
In this specific case, this fuel would be used for nuclear thermal propulsion reactors and could be used in different systems, for electric motors or engines for various functions, specifically it was tested at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center.
This fuel says the researchers who have made this development will be essential to create ship propellants for missions to the moon and deep space that are faster, more agile missions and of course human missions to Mars.
The tests were carried out in collaboration with NASA to verify the capacity of nuclear fuel, which is stable and high performance because the conditions in space are extreme, taking into account that this fuel must survive extremely high temperatures and the extreme environment of this type of reactors.
Normally an NTP reactor that operates in space is quite hot and of course this fuel and the entire engine system must be able to function without problems for months or years according to Elon Musk the first manned Mars mission would be in 2028, but now You know that Elon Musk's imagination runs wild and he has these projects for a Martian colony and to create a civilization on Mars with a million inhabitants, and it is true, if he develops the StarShip he would have a ship that could take humans to Mars, but the problem It's the engine.
The StarShip would need fuel to land, fuel to take off and then fuel to return, so it would not be a single StarShip ship, it would be several, but nevertheless the StarShip could, for example, be coupled to an engine of this type with nuclear fuel, imagine that it is launched the StarShip from Earth, once in space it is coupled to one of these engines that would function as a kind of locomotive that would push the starship through space, it would obviously have to refuel when it arrives on Mars to be able to do the landing and then taking off.
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But once in space I could return to that locomotive with nuclear fuel and return to earth, it would be an option that would save us a lot of fuel because the advantage of this type of nuclear fuel systems is that they save a lot of chemical fuel, which is the problem. that we have, currently the chemical fuel would be used up a lot to simply be able to go to Mars.
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