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- Mars rover mission will use pioneering nuclear power source https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-01487-6 58 comments
- What will we use for power on Mars? http://quest.nasa.gov/aero/planetary/mars.html 93 comments spacex
- Why NASA's Mars rover Perseverance will use nuclear power to keep itself warm https://www.space.com/mars-rover-perseverance-nuclear-power-source-explained.html 4 comments space
- Mars rover mission will use pioneering nuclear power source https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-01487-6 21 comments space
- A conceptual space station going to mars using photon powered engine. Took me a few months. https://youtu.be/S5MVRR68qLk 20 comments space
- Nasa to make announcement about nuclear power in space - The 'Kilopower' project could be used to generate clean energy on the moon, Mars and further into the universe https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/nasa-announcement-nuclear-power-space-kilopower-reactor-a8312491.html 7 comments technology
- Nasa to make announcement about nuclear power in space - The 'Kilopower' project could be used to generate clean energy on the moon, Mars and further into the universe https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/nasa-announcement-nuclear-power-space-kilopower-reactor-a8312491.html 88 comments space
- Russia has a crazy plan to fly to Mars in 45 days using nuclear power - A prototype will be ready for flight testing in 2018 http://www.sciencealert.com/russia-has-a-crazy-plan-to-fly-to-mars-in-45-days-using-nukes 4 comments worldnews
- In 1968 NASA had Detailed plans to land humans on Mars using nuclear powered Rockets, Here is the public presentation video from NASA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KHEHDWBhiZs 195 comments space
- Using the most powerful camera ever to orbit Mars, McEwen and his colleagues are reporting the strongest evidence yet for water on Mars that's flowing, not frozen—and the water is flowing today, not a millennium or an eon ago. http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2011/08/is-mars-weeping-salty-tears.html?rss=1 528 comments science
- Relativity Space has successfully tested its Aeon R engine, which will power the world's only reusable & 100% 3D-printed rockets. They plan to use these engines on their Terran R rocket that will send a payload to Mars in 2025 https://twitter.com/thetimellis/status/1606368351051075584 319 comments futurology
- DoE spending $500M to destroy America's U-233 (created at today's-cost of $4.5B). U-233 can be used to create Pu-238 for NASA RTGs powering probes beyond asteroid belt (and Curiosity Mars Rover). NASA is out of Pu-238. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-p49Sq7mbpE 22 comments space
- Using the most powerful telescope ever sent to Mars, NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter caught the Curiosity rover climbing Mount Sharp. https://phys.org/news/2017-06-image-nasa-mars-reconnaissance-orbiter.html 16 comments space
- Rocket company tests world's most powerful ion engine: The ion engine may be used to maintain the orbit of ISS within the next five years, and could lay the groundwork for rockets that could one day travel to Mars in about a month http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn17918-rocket-company-tests-worlds-most-powerful-ion-engine.html 27 comments science
- NASA’s InSight Mars lander used its robotic arm to trickle sand near one of its solar panel, thus helping the wind to blow off some of the panel’s dust. This increased the power generation with approx. 30 watt-hours per Martian day. https://mars.nasa.gov/news/8959/nasas-insight-mars-lander-gets-a-power-boost/?site=insight 18 comments space
- Mars rover mission will use pioneering nuclear power source - Europe’s upcoming Mars mission will use a pioneering nuclear-powered device that harnesses the radioactive decay of americium to keep its components warm — a first for spacecraft. https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-01487-6 8 comments futurology