SPACE reports that NASA “and the U.S. Department of Energy selected three design concept proposals that the government hopes could be ready for use on the moon by the end of the 2020s, to support the space agency’s Artemis program of lunar exploration.” NASA sees the $5 million contracts “as potentially useful for the exploration of Mars and other deeper-space destinations.” The selected teams “are led by Lockheed Martin, Westinghouse and IX (a joint venture of Intuitive Machines and X-Energy)” and are to “provide NASA critical information from industry that can lead to a joint development of a full flight-certified fission power system.”
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NASA Requests Proposals for Nuclear Reactor on Moon
The Orlando (FL) Sentinel reports that NASA and the US Department of Energy’s Idaho National Laboratory “put out a request for proposals for a fission surface power system” on November 19. NASA and the Idaho National Laboratory are planning “to establish a sun-independent power source for missions to the moon by the end of the decade.”
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