US military gives Lockheed Martin $33.7 million to develop nuclear spacecraft::The U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory just awarded $33.7 million to Lockheed Martin to advance the development of space nuclear propulsion and power tech.

  • echo64@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    It’s also worth noting that past mars solar panels start to be functionally useless, so we use…nuclear powered spacecraft… to generate electricity when needed and have done for half a century. It’s not like nuclear stuff in space is a new idea