NASA's NEW Nuclear Engine to visit Mars in Day, Faster & Better Starship!

NASA's NEW Nuclear Engine to visit Mars in Day, Faster & Better Starship!
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0:00-0:38: Intro
0:38-1:27: Spacecraft travel time
1:28-5:56: NTP & NEP
5:57-8:22: Pulse Plasma Rocket
8:23-10:39: Pulsar Fusion company
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NASA's NEW Nuclear Engine to visit Mars in Day, Faster & Better Starship!
NASA's NEW Nuclear Engine to visit Mars in Day, Faster & Better Starship!
There are many reasons why humans have never explored Mars.
In fact, reaching the red planet, on average around 140 million miles away, will be a mammoth feat.
Colder than Antarctica and with little to no oxygen, Mars is a hostile environment. The longer it takes astronauts to get there and the longer they stay, the more they are at risk.
A roundtrip mission to Mars would last at least an astonishing 21 months: nine months to get there, three months on the planet, and another nine to get back.
NASA's NEW Nuclear Engine to visit Mars in Day, Faster & Better Starship!
Well, are you willing to do this?
But what if there were a faster way to get there? Even more than that of the SpaceX Starship.
Let’s find out on today’s episode of Alpha Tech:
Most rockets today run on conventional chemical fuels.
The trouble is, that all such propellants have a relatively small “energy density” (energy stored per unit volume) and a low “specific impulse” (the efficiency with which they can generate thrust). This means that the overall thrust of the rocket – the specific impulse multiplied by the mass flow rate of the exhaust gas and Earth’s gravity – is low.
NASA's NEW Nuclear Engine to visit Mars in Day, Faster & Better Starship!
Chemical propellants can therefore only get you so far, with the Moon being the traditional limit. To reach distant planets and other “deep-space” destinations, spacecraft usually exploit the gravitational pull of multiple different planets. Such journeys are, however, circuitous and take a long time. NASA’s Juno mission, for example, needed five years to get to Jupiter, while the Voyager craft took more than 30 years to reach the edge of the solar system. Such missions are also restricted by narrow and infrequent launch windows.
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[jackbn]

I am a long-time NASA employee, long retired. It is very painful to see how incompetence now rules at NASA.

[dionysus]

There will be hundreds of Starships on Mars before NASAs nuclear powered ship gets there for the first time. Most Starship trips will be cargo anyway where it doesn't really matter how long the trip takes as long as there is a steady stream of ships going to Mars to establish a supply chain. SpaceX has had over 100 launches in the last 12 months. SLS is targeting one per year. The nuclear Mars ship will probably only go to Mars every 2-4 years. You can't build a supply chain that way.

[lockwoodpeckinpaugh]

I think dilithium crystal propulsion needs to develop. Warp speed baby.

[cruzin]

Elon Musk will get to Mars 10 years before NASA has a working prototype.

[Sparky]

I sure as hell hope Boeing did not play any part in this new money pit.

[anynomoustrooper]

A nuclear fusion engine will not likely be an efficient launch engine, however, a Space X rocket could ferry a nuclear propulsion capable Mars craft into space where it could propel the space craft to speeds unseen. It would be wise to send several drone rockets to mars in advance with supplies, emergency supplies parts and electronics.

[billscott]

Blue Origin will miss the deadline by years.

[JCMills]

No way NASA can accomplish something like that. SpaceX, yeah probably. But NASA is too much of a bureaucracy to really accomplish anything significant any more.

[UnitedWeStandFreedom]

I'm ready to go to mars right now ! Anything is better than trying to live on this planet these days !!

[d_baumberger]

NASA 😂. This is funny, not in business for innovation, but job security and a never ending government funding

[tommymclean]

fact is at such as speed there would be bloody mush with g force lol we are not very dense but force is so this is another pipe dream you could use it for supplies and robots but people be there some time later if theres no accedents caused by human error lol

[djohannsson]

Project NERVA, proposed and demonstrated a nuclear engine during the late 1950s. It worked exceedingly well.

The fear of launching a fully functional nuclear rocket into space, with a chance of a launch radiation disaster, became too high an issue.

Today would use a large chemical rocket to deliver the nuclear engine to LEO, and separately transport its fuel rods. Assembled them in space to avoid any launching issues.

It's current plan in 2027 is to prove they can accelerate a "small" probe from LEO to the outer solar system.

Any Mars missions would require a much larger system.

[tsclly]

With Starliner and the Hubble Telescope fiasco, 'heads are going to roll'

[peterpankratz]

Finally someone is talking nuclear engines. Cut with the B S about chemical rockets. No way can we reach other planets and stay there without nuclear. I’m sure friends of the earth would it be against it even though nuclear material would exit the planet and never come back.😅

[MrRichu]

Blue origin can't even get a conventual rocket into orbit...

[KorAllRBare]

I still think flipping four or more electrostatic ?! WAIT! that will come later Err-electromagnetic
fields "Sections" strategically to provide enough velocity in any X, Y or Z direction as long as
a nuclear generator is allowed, all it needs is enough energy ergo repulsion to double
respective sections flipped field to double it's previous velocity. The trick is tying the bulk of
the sections electromagnetically so that the section being repulsed is accelerated the most
towards the desired direction, to which once moving is strategically electromagnetically
recombined as part of the main mass to move the following section that is then
electromagnetically flipped and accelerated, similar to "Mag trains" only the Main mass is
electromagnetically established and reconfigured on the fly so that three sections repulse one
section forward.

To which at some point, the fields polarity would have to then be strategically reconfigured for
the respective sections to provide deacceleration.
Also consider a minimum of 4 X 4 X 4 sections all up 64 sections" so that X, Y, & Z acceleration
and deacceleration is possible.
Yeah much like those UPA's that are utilising at the molecular level the atoms electrostatic fields,
which are energised and manipulated using the energy of hydrogen, yeah our system won't be
as sleek for some time, and they will still rely on our extremely crude nuclear understanding, but
hey one day, we will drop the current archaic theories on theoretical particles, which will then
open the flood gate to a new error in physics.

[petepete]

And of course Blue Origin wont be ready until and beyond

[VAMobMember]

Based on past history we are looking at 10 yrs ofcounrt cases to get initial launch approval.

[tedjones-hozk]

Time frame of 2026, so with NASA involved should happen if at all by 2046

[Head-ckhu]

It takes mass to move mass. All you're changing is the speed of the mass. And not by much.