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Startup Plans to Launch Nuclear Reactor into Space for First Time in Decades
- WalterGR 4y agoThe title begs the question: when was the last time? Relevant excerpt: > Though many orbiters, deep-space probes, and Mars rovers run on radioisotope batteries fueled by plutonium, the United States has only ever launched one nuclear fission reactor in space, called SNAP-10, in 1965. Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SNAP-10A https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SNAP-10A