{"id":124120,"date":"2021-06-22T14:22:40","date_gmt":"2021-06-22T21:22:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/russia-wants-to-send-a-nuclear-powered-spacecraft-to-jupiter-this-decade"},"modified":"2021-06-22T14:22:40","modified_gmt":"2021-06-22T21:22:40","slug":"russia-wants-to-send-a-nuclear-powered-spacecraft-to-jupiter-this-decade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/russia-wants-to-send-a-nuclear-powered-spacecraft-to-jupiter-this-decade","title":{"rendered":"Russia Wants To Send A Nuclear-Powered Spacecraft To Jupiter This Decade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/russia-wants-to-send-a-nuclear-powered-spacecraft-to-jupiter-this-decade.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Russia is planning to send a nuclear-powered spacecraft to the grand gas giant of the Solar System, Jupiter, in 2030.<\/p>\n<p>Roscosmos, Russia\u2019s federal space agency, <a href=\"https:\/\/tass.com\/science\/1292721\"> announced<\/a> the plan for the mammoth 50-month journey last week. The journey will take it on a mini tour of the Solar System, taking pit stops around the Moon and Venus, dropping off spacecraft along its way, before heading on to Jupiter.<\/p>\n<p>More specifically, a \u201cspace tug\u201d with a nuclear-based transport and energy module dubbed Zeus will head towards the Moon where a spacecraft will separate from it. It will then pass by Venus to perform a gravity assist maneuver and drop off another spacecraft, before venturing towards Jupiter and one of its satellites.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russia is planning to send a nuclear-powered spacecraft to the grand gas giant of the Solar System, Jupiter, in 2030. Roscosmos, Russia\u2019s federal space agency, announced the plan for the mammoth 50-month journey last week. The journey will take it on a mini tour of the Solar System, taking pit stops around the Moon and [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":388,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[873,2028],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-124120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nuclear-energy","category-satellites"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124120","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/388"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124120"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124120\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}