Nuclear Electric Propulsion

Highlights

• ›A reactor powering electric thrusters — not yet flown

Hardware & related concepts

• Electric Propulsion
• Nuclear Thermal Propulsion
• Crewed Deep-Space Propulsion

Across space engineering

• VASIMR

Knowledge connections

• Associated withElectric Propulsion
• Associated withNuclear Thermal Propulsion
• Associated withCrewed Deep-Space Propulsion
• Associated withVASIMR

Sources

Facts on this topic will be cited from these primary and reference sources.

• NASANational Aeronautics and Space Administration

  Mission data, planetary science, space telescopes, and public-domain imagery.

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