Monday, 23 January 2023 – 10:03 WIB
LIVE Techno – Program Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC) NASA will provide exploration funding for a technology concept that will be very significant. They will shorten the travel time to the planet Mars for the survival of the humans who go there.
Among this year’s contenders, the idea of getting astronauts to Mars in 45 days is catching the eye. In comparison, it took Perseverance 203 days or nearly seven months to reach Earth’s neighboring planet.
Ryan Gosse of the University of Florida calls his idea ‘Bimodal NTP/NEP with Rotor Wave Topping Cycle’ in a brief description on the NASA blog. Here NTP/NEP stands for Nuclear Thermal Propulsion/Nuclear-Electric Propulsion, two ideas for flight outer space which has been around for a while which could drastically reduce the time it will take for humans to get to Mars for any future missions.
Details are scarce but the Phase I grant of US$12,500 or IDR 188 million will not be used to build prototypes or aircraft outer space. Instead, it will give Gosse the opportunity to develop the concept to a point where it can compete for future phases or other sources of funding.
Although many spacecraft instruments are powered by radioactive decay, they rely on conventional chemical propulsion to provide cruising thrust to their targets. In theory, there are great advantages to using force nuclearespecially in reducing the fuel load.
Nuclear-Thermal Propulsion would heat a propellant such as liquid hydrogen until it becomes plasma, which escapes through a nozzle, relying on Newton’s third law to send the plane the other way.
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Nuclear-Electric Propulsion, on the other hand, will use the energy generated by the reactor to power the ion thrusters, quoting from the IFL Science website, Monday, January 23, 2023.
