{"id":190723,"date":"2009-10-31T07:05:00","date_gmt":"2009-10-31T12:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/10\/31\/russia-planning-nuclear-rocket\/"},"modified":"2009-10-31T07:05:00","modified_gmt":"2009-10-31T12:05:00","slug":"russia-planning-nuclear-rocket","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/10\/31\/russia-planning-nuclear-rocket\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia Planning Nuclear Rocket"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"border: 1px solid black; margin: 0px 10px; width: 410px; float: right; text-align: center;\">Click for full size<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/img413.imageshack.us\/img413\/7237\/bimodalnuclearthermalro.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img413.imageshack.us\/img413\/7237\/bimodalnuclearthermalro.jpg\" bordercolor=\"white\" width=\"400\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a> <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Bimodal Nuclear Thermal Rocket<\/span><\/div>\n<p>From the report, we are not talking about Orion, or direct thrust from nuclear heating, but rather <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theregister.co.uk\/2009\/10\/29\/russian_nuke_spaceship\/\">some sort of electric propulsion system using electricity from a reactor<\/a> for a proposed mission to Mars.<\/p>\n<p>Something like <a href=\"http:\/\/40yrs.blogspot.com\/search?q=%22ion+drive%22\">ion drive<\/a>, or <a href=\"http:\/\/40yrs.blogspot.com\/search?q=plasma+drive\">plasma drive<\/a> would likely cut transit time by at least \u00be for a manned trip to Mars, and if a ground base were established, a nuclear power supply would handle the reduced solar energy levels there.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d take this with a grain of salt, because the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.rian.ru\/science\/20091028\/156623290.html\">cost quoted for this is a bit over US $\u00be billion<\/a>, which sounds like a quote from Never Land.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Click for full size Bimodal Nuclear Thermal Rocket From the report, we are not talking about Orion, or direct thrust from nuclear heating, but rather some sort of electric propulsion system using electricity from a reactor for a proposed mission to Mars. Something like ion drive, or plasma drive would likely cut transit time by &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1163,1033,1037,1025],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-190723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nuclear-power","category-russia","category-space","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190723"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=190723"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190723\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}