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Author : Joseph A. Angelo,David Buden
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : UOM:39015009833941
Author : National Research Council,Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences,Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board,Space Studies Board,Committee on Priorities for Space Science Enabled by Nuclear Power and Propulsion
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2006-03-20
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780309180108
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.
Author : International Atomic Energy Agency
Publisher : IAEA
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UOM:39015069115601
Provides details of a variety of radioisotope power systems, shows in what circumstances they surpass other power systems, and provides the history of the space missions in which they have been employed. The book also summarizes the use of on-board reactors and the testing done on reactor rocket thrusters.
Author : Mohamed S. El-Genk,Mark D. Hoover
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1993-04
Category : Science
ISBN : 1563961377
This extensive and completely comprehensive proceedings volume offers the most in-depth examination available today of nuclear power for applications in space.
Author : James R. Downey,Anthony M. Forestier,David E. Miller
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : UOM:39015079208438
Lt Col Downey, USAFR; Wing Cdr Forestier, RAAF; and Lt Col David E. Miller, USAF, advocate a feasibility study for reactors in space and explore a deeper problem with widespread societal rejection concerning the theoretical employment of nuclear technology in space. They point first to the mission enabling advantages of nuclear reactors in space--factors like light weight, high power, long life, and potentially lower costs. They see that nuclear-powered spacecraft would serve long-range NASA missions as well as permit effective hyperspectral satellites that would have profound benefits for the Department of Defense. The limiting factors for nuclear power in space are a compelling mission requirement and broad acceptance in popular support. Many opponents either have general doubts about such an undertaking or perceive cataclysmic dangers. A failure of a space launch carrying nuclear systems would produce something on the order of a 'dirty' nuclear bomb. Two things were clear to the authors. One, nuclear space developers must convince the public that they are capable of developing a safe and robust system. Two, because the political battle is primarily over perceived risks rather than empirically based understanding, employment of a values-focused decision strategy is necessary to convince the public and congressional leaders of the feasibility of a space nuclear program.
Author : Claudio Bruno
Publisher : Progress in Astronautics and A
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 1563479516
Nuclear propulsion : an introduction / Claudio Bruno -- Nuclear-thermal-rocket propulsion systems / Timothy J. Lawrence -- Application of ion thrusters to high-thrust, high-specific-impulse nuclear electric missions / D.G. Fearn -- High-power and high-thrust-density electric propulsion for in-space transportation / Monika Auweter-Kurtz and Helmut Kurtz -- Review of reactor configurations for space nuclear electric propulsion and surface power considerations / Roger X. Lenard -- Nuclear safety : legal aspects and policy recommendations / Roger X. Lenard -- Radioactivity, doses, and risks in nuclear propulsion / Alessio Del Rossi and Claudio Bruno -- The Chernobyl accident : a detailed account / Alessio del Rossi and Claudio Bruno.
Author : National Research Council,Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences,Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board,Space Studies Board,Radioisotope Power Systems Committee
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 69 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2009-07-14
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780309141765
Spacecraft require electrical energy. This energy must be available in the outer reaches of the solar system where sunlight is very faint. It must be available through lunar nights that last for 14 days, through long periods of dark and cold at the higher latitudes on Mars, and in high-radiation fields such as those around Jupiter. Radioisotope power systems (RPSs) are the only available power source that can operate unconstrained in these environments for the long periods of time needed to accomplish many missions, and plutonium-238 (238Pu) is the only practical isotope for fueling them. Plutonium-238 does not occur in nature. The committee does not believe that there is any additional 238Pu (or any operational 238Pu production facilities) available anywhere in the world.The total amount of 238Pu available for NASA is fixed, and essentially all of it is already dedicated to support several pending missions-the Mars Science Laboratory, Discovery 12, the Outer Planets Flagship 1 (OPF 1), and (perhaps) a small number of additional missions with a very small demand for 238Pu. If the status quo persists, the United States will not be able to provide RPSs for any subsequent missions.
Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science, Space, and Technology. Subcommittee on Energy Research and Development
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Nuclear energy
ISBN : PSU:000015608932
Author : National Academies of Sciences Engineering and Medicine,Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences,Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board,Space Nuclear Propulsion Technologies Committee
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2021-11-12
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0309684803
Space Nuclear Propulsion for Human Mars Exploration identifies primary technical and programmatic challenges, merits, and risks for developing and demonstrating space nuclear propulsion technologies of interest to future exploration missions. This report presents key milestones and a top-level development and demonstration roadmap for performance nuclear thermal propulsion and nuclear electric propulsion systems and identifies missions that could be enabled by successful development of each technology.
Author : National Research Council,Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences,Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems,Energy Engineering Board,Committee on Advanced Space Based High Power Technologies
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 155 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1989-02-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780309039994
"Star Wars"â€"as the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) is dubbedâ€"will require reliable sources of immense amounts of energy to power such advanced weapons as lasers and particle beams. Are such power sources available? This study says no, not yetâ€"and points the way toward the kind of energy research and development that is needed to power SDI. Advanced Power Sources for Space Missions presents a comprehensive and objective view of SDI's unprecedented power requirements and the opportunities we have to meet them in a cost-effective manner.
Author : United States. Congress. Joint Committee on Atomic Energy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1961
Category : Nuclear propulsion
ISBN : UOM:39015003996405
Focuses on cooperative AEC-NASA-DOD RPD programs to apply nuclear power to rocket propulsion and spacecraft power systems.
Author : William R. Corliss
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 56 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1966
Category : Project SNAP.
ISBN : UCAL:B4118702
Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science, Space, and Technology. Subcommittee on Investigations and Oversight
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : STANFORD:36105021029108
Author : United States. Congress. Joint Committee on Atomic Energy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1966
Category : Space vehicles
ISBN : UIUC:30112104121907
Considers Space Nuclear Auxiliary Power program and plans for utilization of isotopic, reactor, or solar powered space electric power systems. Includes "Preliminary SNAPSHOT-1 Performance Summary," AEC report, p. 135-230.
Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Energy and Natural Resources
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Artificial satellites
ISBN : PSU:000014992254
