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Last Saturday I drove up to Wyoming with some friends in order to avoid the Front Range’s light pollution to better view the Perseid meteor shower. We car-camped (or glamped, as I tend to derogitively call it) in a stretch of Medicine Bow National Forest between Cheyenne and Laramie, laying under a blanket of stars. […]
Fission-powered engines would make satellites speedier and more manoeuvrable | Science & technology
Houston, are we going to have a problem with space nuclear power? Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, By Beau Rideout | July 19, 2021 ” ………….. space nuclear power isn’t just about propulsion. The dynamic commercial space and national security sectors can also benefit from nuclear capabilities and have an important role to play in developing dual-use technologies that have both military and civilian applications, though with some caveats to ensure human safety. While the National Academies report published in February advocates for the use of nuclear power in propulsion, nu...