Priorities in Space Science Enabled by Nuclear Power and Propulsion
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A01=Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board
A01=Committee on Priorities for Space Science Enabled by Nuclear Power and Propulsion
A01=Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences
A01=National Research Council
A01=Space Studies Board
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Author_Committee on Priorities for Space Science Enabled by Nuclear Power and Propulsion
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Author_Space Studies Board
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- ISBN 9780309100113
- Dimensions: 216 x 279mm
- Publication Date: 20 Mar 2006
- Publisher: National Academies Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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In 2003, NASA began an R&D effort to develop nuclear power and propulsion systems for solar system exploration. This activity, renamed Project Prometheus in 2004, was initiated because of the inherent limitations in photovoltaic and chemical propulsion systems in reaching many solar system objectives. To help determine appropriate missions for a nuclear power and propulsion capability, NASA asked the NRC for an independent assessment of potentially highly meritorious missions that may be enabled if space nuclear systems became operational. This report provides a series of space science objectives and missions that could be so enabled in the period beyond 2015 in the areas of astronomy and astrophysics, solar system exploration, and solar and space physics. It is based on but does not reprioritize the findings of previous NRC decadal surveys in those three areas.
Committee on Priorities for Space Science Enabled by Nuclear Power and Propulsion, National Research Council
