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Space nuclear propulsion for human mars exploration
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (U.S.)
Space Nuclear Propulsion Technologies Committee,
Executive summary. -- 1. Introduction and baseline mission requirements. -- Introduction. -- Baseline mission to Mars: crewed opposition class missions. -- Propulsion system requirements. -- Cargo missions. -- Summary. -- 2. Nuclear thermal propulsion. -- System concept. -- Historical overview. -- State of the art. -- Technology requirements, risks, and options. -- Testing, editing, and simulation. -- Development and demonstration roadmap. -- Summary. -- 3. Nuclear electric propulsion. -- System concept. -- Historical overview. -- State of the art. -- Technology requirements, risks, and options. -- Testing, modeling, and simulation. -- Development and demonstration roadmap. -- Summary. -- 4. System and programmatic issues. -- NTP and NEP are different technologies. -- Developments common to both NTP and NEP systems. -- HEU versus HALEU. -- Industrial base. -- Lessons learned from the history of developing space nuclear systems. -- Key technical risks. -- Programmatics. -- 5. Mission applications. -- Science missions. -- Potential for higher performance space nuclear propulsion systems. -- Surface power use of NEP reactors. -- Synergies with national security missions. -- Synergies with terrestrial nuclear systems. -- Appendixes.
Space Nuclear Propulsion Technologies Committee ; Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board ; Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences.