UK nuclear spacecraft could halve time of journey to Mars
by Jillian Ambrose from Science | The Guardian on (#5CQP8)
Rolls-Royce and UK Space Agency hope to revolutionise space travel' with deal to build nuclear propulsion engines
British spacecraft could travel to Mars in half the time it now takes by using nuclear propulsion engines built by Rolls-Royce under a new deal with the UK Space Agency.
The aerospace company hopes nuclear-powered engines could help astronauts make it to Mars in three to four months, twice as fast as the most powerful chemical engines, and unlock deeper space exploration in the decades to come.
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