NASA program planning on nuclear electric propulsion

Conference · Sat Feb 29 23:00:00 EST 1992

OSTI ID:7112246

Bennett, G L; Miller, T J ^[1]

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1. NASA, Washington, DC (United States) NASA, Lewis Research Center, Cleveland, OH (United States)

As part of the focused technology planning for future NASA space science and exploration missions, NASA has initiated a focused technology program to develop the technologies for nuclear electric propulsion and nuclear thermal propulsion. Beginning in 1990, NASA began a series of interagency planning workshops and meetings to identify key technologies and program priorities for nuclear propulsion. The high-priority, near-term technologies that must be developed to make NEP operational for space exploration include scaling thrusters to higher power, developing high-temperature power processing units, and developing high power, low-mass, long-lived nuclear reactors. 28 refs.

• Research Organization: National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Washington, DC (United States)
• OSTI ID: 7112246
• Report Number(s): AIAA-Paper--92-1557; CONF-920373--
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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