SPACE TALK - Missions to Mars wil use nuclear energy

« Missions to Mars wil use nuclear energy »

Welcome Guest. Please Login or Register.
Dec 23, 2009, 3:42am

SPACE TALK :: UNMANNED SPACE MISSIONS :: PLANETARY MISSIONS :: Missions to Mars wil use nuclear energy

Author

Topic: Missions to Mars wil use nuclear energy (Read 18 times)

glactus
Senior Member

member is offline

[avatar]

Of Men and Galaxies

Joined: Feb 2008
Gender: Male

Posts: 251
Location: Queensland Australia

Missions to Mars wil use nuclear energy
« Thread Started on Oct 28, 2009, 5:08am »

The Orion Project

Moscow, Russia (XNA) Oct 28, 2009
The future Mars manned exploration projects will only become true by using nuclear energy, said President and Chief Designer of Russia's Energia Aerospace Corporation Vitaly Lopota here on Monday.

[image]

Nucear pulse propulsion

Since current rocket technologies are not sufficient for the future exploration of Mars and the whole Solar system, and since no alternative energy resources have been found as of now, the only possible way to implement those projects would be by using nuclear energy, Lopota said at an academic conference on aerospace.

[image]

The Vasimr rocket

Lopota also believed that the Mars projects should be prioritized over the Lunar ones, because the technologies applied to the former could be used in the latter, but it would be more difficult to achieve the goal in the reversed order.

Source: Xinhua News Agency
See more at Mars Daily.com
http://www.marsdaily.com/reports/Martian....Energy_999.html

Astronomy photo albums:
See thousands of images in Glactus albums
http://s131.photobucket.com/albums/p301/glactus/?action=editsubalbums

« Last Edit: Nov 2, 2009, 6:07pm by glactus »

Link to Post - Back to Top IP:

Logged

You are a child of the universe, no less than the trees and the stars.

Click Here To Make This Board Ad-Free

This Board Hosted For FREE By ProBoards
Get Your Own Free Message Boards & Free Forums!