Priorities in Space Science Enabled by Nuclear Power and Propulsion
Priorities in Space Science Enabled by Nuclear Power and Propulsion
ISBN: 9780309100113
出版社: Natl Academy Pr
出版年: 2006-3
页数: 158
定价: $ 74.58
装帧: Pap
内容简介
In 2003, NASA began an R&D effort to develop nuclear power and propulsion systems for solar system exploration. This activity, renamed Project Prometheus in 2004, was initiated because of the inherent limitations in photovoltaic and chemical propulsion systems in reaching many solar system objectives. To help determine appropriate missions for a nuclear power and propulsion capability, NASA asked the NRC for an independent assessment of potentially highly meritorious missions that may be enabled if space nuclear systems became operational. This report provides a series of space science objectives and missions that could be so enabled in the period beyond 2015 in the areas of astronomy and astrophysics, solar system exploration, and solar and space physics. It is based on but does not reprioritize the findings of previous NRC decadal surveys in those three areas.