May 2020
Iran - emerging space state or threat to world peace?
... managed to create a large, domestically-produced arsenal of missiles that give the Iranian government a degree of respect. Nuclear reactor in Iran. Political background Iran’s space programme has developed from a perception that the country is being...
May 2026
Mars exploration – the nuclear option
... system takes over. At this point, the propulsion architecture transitions into its hybrid configuration, with a single nuclear reactor responsible for powering both the thermal and electric systems in different stages of the mission. Stage one...
October 2018
Looking for life on Enceladus with IceMole
..., radioisotope power sources are not sufficiently capable to produce the power levels needed for this mission. Nuclear reactors are mass efficient and robust and NASA has developed and recently tested such...
December 2014
A door closes
... in Russia and elsewhere in the former Soviet space, developing more proliferation-resistant nuclear reactors, and developing ways to mitigate the consequences of nuclear accidents. In 2011, the United States and Russia concluded a so-called 123...
27 July 2020
Radiation-loving fungus could protect astronauts from cosmic rays
... novel way to potentially mitigate against the dangers; coating surfaces in a radiation-absorbing fungus found at the Chernobyl nuclear reactor nearly three decades ago. Radiation comes in two types; either non-ionising (low energy) or ionising (high...
August 2020
Battle for the night sky - from telescopes to ad-breaks
... of defunct objects now in various orbits around the Earth, from spent rocket stages and dead satellites to nuclear reactors. The first concerns the rise of large satellite constellations, which has prompted the International Astronomical Union...
