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  title info:
    title: Space nuclear propulsion for human mars exploration
  name:
    name part: National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (U.S.)
    name part: Space Nuclear Propulsion Technologies Committee,
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: issuing body.
  name:
    name part: ProQuest (Firm)
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: dcu
    date issued: 2021
    copyright date: 2021
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource.
  table of contents: 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.
  note: Space Nuclear Propulsion Technologies Committee ; Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board ; Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences.
  note: Electronic resource.
  note: Includes bibliographical references.
  subject:
    geographic code: zo-----
    geographic code: zma----
  subject:
    topic: Space vehicles
    topic: Propulsion systems
    topic: Technological innovations
  subject:
    topic: Nuclear propulsion
  subject:
    geographic: Outer space
    topic: Exploration
  subject:
    geographic: Mars (Planet)
  classification: TL782 .N38 2021
  classification: 629.47/5
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Consensus study report
  identifier: 9780309684811 (electronic bk.)
  identifier: 0309684811 (electronic bk.)
  identifier: 0309684803
  identifier: 9780309684804
  identifier: https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/tamucs/detail.action
  record info:
    record content source: NhCcYBP
    record creation date: 211004
    record change date: 20250816204035.8
    record identifier: in00004373193