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"Russia's space agency is planning to
build a new spaceship with a nuclear
engine, its chief said Wednesday.
Anatoly Perminov told a government
meeting Wednesday that the preliminary
design could be ready by 2012. He said
it will then take nine more years and 17
billion rubles ($600 million, 400 million
euros) to build the ship."
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http://tech.yahoo.com/news/ap/20091028/ap_on_hi_te/eu_russia_nuclear_spaceship |
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| Pat Flannery... |
| Posted: Thu Oct 29, 2009 12:38 am |
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| Sylvia Else... |
| Posted: Thu Oct 29, 2009 1:31 am |
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| Derek Lyons... |
| Posted: Thu Oct 29, 2009 11:45 am |
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dumpster4 at (no spam) hotmail.com wrote:
[quote]"Russia's space agency is planning to
build a new spaceship with a nuclear
engine, its chief said Wednesday.
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Ah! Yet another Brave Russian Powerpoint!
D.
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-Resolved: To be more temperate in my postings.
Oct 5th, 2004 JDL |
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| BradGuth... |
| Posted: Thu Oct 29, 2009 7:50 pm |
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On Oct 29, 7:21 pm, Sylvia Else <syl... at (no spam) not.at.this.address> wrote:
[quote]Damon Hill wrote:
Sylvia Else <syl... at (no spam) not.at.this.address> wrote in
news:005a9114$0$8055$c3e8da3 at (no spam) news.astraweb.com:
dumpst... at (no spam) hotmail.com wrote:
See:
http://tech.yahoo.com/news/ap/20091028/ap_on_hi_te/eu_russia_nuclear_
spaceship
"megawatt class"?
Nuclear electric, then. Nuclear thermal would require gigawatt class..
Pretty much in line with their previous concepts.
Nucler electric in the megawatt class might make a viable deep space
vehicle with some sort of ion drive, but it's not going to function as
replacement for lauchers, which the article seemed to be contemplating.
Sylvia.
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Ask William Mook, what's up with nuclear/fission rocket thrust..
~ BG |
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| Damon Hill... |
| Posted: Thu Oct 29, 2009 9:05 pm |
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Sylvia Else <sylvia at (no spam) not.at.this.address> wrote in
news:005a9114$0$8055$c3e8da3 at (no spam) news.astraweb.com:
[quote]dumpster4 at (no spam) hotmail.com wrote:
See:
http://tech.yahoo.com/news/ap/20091028/ap_on_hi_te/eu_russia_nuclear_
spaceship
"megawatt class"?
[/quote]
Nuclear electric, then. Nuclear thermal would require gigawatt class.
Pretty much in line with their previous concepts.
--Damon |
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| Sylvia Else... |
| Posted: Thu Oct 29, 2009 9:21 pm |
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Damon Hill wrote:
[quote]Sylvia Else <sylvia at (no spam) not.at.this.address> wrote in
news:005a9114$0$8055$c3e8da3 at (no spam) news.astraweb.com:
dumpster4 at (no spam) hotmail.com wrote:
See:
http://tech.yahoo.com/news/ap/20091028/ap_on_hi_te/eu_russia_nuclear_
spaceship
"megawatt class"?
Nuclear electric, then. Nuclear thermal would require gigawatt class.
Pretty much in line with their previous concepts.
[/quote]
Nucler electric in the megawatt class might make a viable deep space
vehicle with some sort of ion drive, but it's not going to function as
replacement for lauchers, which the article seemed to be contemplating.
Sylvia. |
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| Pat Flannery... |
| Posted: Thu Oct 29, 2009 10:52 pm |
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Damon Hill wrote:
[quote]
Nuclear electric, then. Nuclear thermal would require gigawatt class.
Pretty much in line with their previous concepts.
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The article suggests it designed for surface lift-off.
Pat |
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| Damon Hill... |
| Posted: Thu Oct 29, 2009 11:09 pm |
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Pat Flannery <flanner at (no spam) daktel.com> wrote in
news:q86dnb_iu-Ce_nfXnZ2dnUVZ_rRi4p2d at (no spam) posted.northdakotatelephone:
[quote]Damon Hill wrote:
Nuclear electric, then. Nuclear thermal would require gigawatt
class. Pretty much in line with their previous concepts.
The article suggests it designed for surface lift-off.
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It read kind of vaguely for me, but obviously surface launch would just
about have to be gigawatt class nuclear-thermal, or even less likely,
nuclear pulse.
--Damon |
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