{"id":124880,"date":"2021-07-13T04:22:17","date_gmt":"2021-07-13T11:22:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/07\/russia-proposes-nuclear-power-plant-on-mars"},"modified":"2021-07-13T04:22:17","modified_gmt":"2021-07-13T11:22:17","slug":"russia-proposes-nuclear-power-plant-on-mars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/07\/russia-proposes-nuclear-power-plant-on-mars","title":{"rendered":"Russia Proposes Nuclear Power Plant on Mars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/russia-proposes-nuclear-power-plant-on-mars2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Case in point, a subsidiary of Russia\u2019s Roscosmos space agency is now proposing a nuclear power station on Mars, intended to power a future Russian base on the Red Planet, state-run news agency <a href=\"https:\/\/sputniknews.com\/science\/202107111083361640-russian-space-agency-proposes-putting-a-nuclear-power-station-on-mars\/\" class=\"\"><em>Sputnik<\/em> reports<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Arsenal Design Bureau, the subsidiary, is recommending using the same technologies destined for Zeus, a proposed interplanetary space tug, to power a nuclear reactor on the Martian surface as well.<\/p>\n<p>The massive space tug is designed to make use of a nuclear-powered electric propulsion system to deliver payloads throughout the solar system. Earlier this year, Roscosmos chief Dmitry Rogozin suggested that Zeus could also visit other planets, <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/russia-nuclear-powered-spacecraft-jupiter\" class=\"\">including Jupiter<\/a>, to search for alien life. Russia is hoping to begin flight-testing it starting around 2030.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Case in point, a subsidiary of Russia\u2019s Roscosmos space agency is now proposing a nuclear power station on Mars, intended to power a future Russian base on the Red Planet, state-run news agency Sputnik reports. The Arsenal Design Bureau, the subsidiary, is recommending using the same technologies destined for Zeus, a proposed interplanetary space tug, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":465,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1527,873],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-124880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alien-life","category-nuclear-energy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124880","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\/465"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124880"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124880\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}