As noted in the document, uranium fuel will ensure the operability of systems where
Radioisotope energy systems, fission reactors used to move spacecraft and other elements are going to feed energy.
These systems can allow you to work in thoseIn environments where solar and chemical energy are insufficient, they can produce more energy with less mass, <…> reducing the flight time of manned and robotic spacecraft.
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It is planned that with the help of uranium they willto develop fuels suitable for use on the lunar and planetary surfaces, in space energy, and for nuclear electric propulsion systems and nuclear thermal propulsion systems.
The new strategy is necessary to achieve U.S. scientific, intelligence, commercial, and national security objectives, the directive says.
Let us remember that this is one of the stages of preparation forthe Artemis lunar program project, which was announced by NASA in the spring of 2019. The program consists of three stages: the first of them (Artemis 1) involves an unmanned flight of the Orion ship installed on the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket around the Moon and its return to Earth. The second stage (Artemis 2) - the Moon will be flown around with a crew on board. In the third stage of the mission (Artemis 3), NASA expects to land astronauts on the Moon in 2024, and then send people to Mars approximately in the mid-2030s.
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