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NASA’s SR-1 Freedom aims to be the first fission-powered spacecraft to leave Earth orbit

NASA says its SR-1 Freedom spacecraft will be “humanity’s first fission-powered spacecraft to travel outside Earth’s orbit,” ...
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NASA announced the '1st nuclear powered interplanetary spacecraft.' What about the Voyager probes?

This week, NASA administrator Jared Isaacman announced the agency will be developing the "first nuclear powered interplanetary spacecraft" ahead of a planned 2028 launch to Mars. The ambition of the ...
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NASA's SR-1 Freedom Advances with Progress on Nuclear Power Module

These contract actions not only reduce technical risk and help us maintain momentum toward our 2028 launch, but they also ...
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NASA’s new AI space chip could let spacecraft think for themselves

NASA is testing a next-generation space computer chip that could give spacecraft the ability to operate far more independently in deep space. The radiation-hardened processor is showing performance ...

Artemis 2 Set Out to Prove Orion Could Handle Deep Space. Here’s How It Delivered

The Artemis 2 mission sent astronauts back to the Moon aboard a spacecraft that had never flown humans before.