>Both the US and China have committed to fission-powered spacecraft in the near term. It’s probably the most important area of superpower space competition in t

>Both the US and China have committed to fission-powered spacecraft in the near term. It’s probably the most important area of superpower space competition in the sense that it’ll enable space resource exploitation far beyond what’s possible with chemical energy alone. https://www.etec.energy.gov/Operations/Major_Operations/SNAP_Overview.php https://www.etec.energy.gov/Operations/Major_Operations/SNAP... (This was not the RTG of Voyager and other well-known spacecraft)