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Offline Eric Hedman

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Re: Russian nuclear propulsion
« Reply #80 on: 04/27/2023 11:43 pm »
https://tass.ru/kosmos/17619395

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“They are interested in our competencies in engines, they really want to get them and figure out how they are made in order to repeat them,” Borisov said.
China wants to appropriate Russia's intellectual property.  Imagine that.

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Re: Russian nuclear propulsion
« Reply #81 on: 04/28/2023 10:52 am »
Was expecting this. China is working on a 1MW nuclear reactor for space purposes. This is one area where they can profit a lot from cooperating with Russia, speeding things up considerably.

For Russia, I guess this means Zevs can fly after all.

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Re: Russian nuclear propulsion
« Reply #82 on: 08/11/2023 03:13 pm »
Was expecting this. China is working on a 1MW nuclear reactor for space purposes. This is one area where they can profit a lot from cooperating with Russia, speeding things up considerably.

For Russia, I guess this means Zevs can fly after all.
There's a post on this forum containing a recent news item from April 2023 that mentions a NET 2030 launch window for the Zevs space tug:
https://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=50028.msg2513503#msg2513503

Offline gosnold

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Re: Russian nuclear propulsion
« Reply #83 on: 03/14/2024 06:17 pm »
I have written an article on the russian space nuclear reactors:

https://satelliteobservation.net/2024/02/20/countering-constellations-the-russian-space-nuke-scare/

It is based a lot on Bart Hendrickx's Space Review article on Ekipazh, and the next article will adress how the power of a such a reactor can be used for jamming

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