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New Nuclear-powered Spaceship Design Revealed

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the goes-to-eleven dept.

Iddo Genuth writes "A U.S. based company introduced an innovative propulsion system that could significantly shorten round trips from Earth to Mars (from two years to only six months) and enable future spaceships to reach Jupiter after one year of space traveling. The system, which may dramatically affect interplanetary space travel is called the Miniature Magnetic Orion (Mini-Mag Orion for short), and is an optimization of the 1958 Orion interplanetary propulsion concept."

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  1. jupiter? by farkus888 · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Jupiter in a year is great but how long does it take to get to Uranus?

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  2. Re:hopefully by Tablizer · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Hopefully this spaceship will be able to slow down before it reaches mars.

    Um, oh oh
            -NASA-

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