{"id":157042,"date":"2023-02-04T15:26:40","date_gmt":"2023-02-04T21:26:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/02\/rolls-royces-new-micro-reactor-design-could-send-humans-to-mars"},"modified":"2023-02-04T15:26:40","modified_gmt":"2023-02-04T21:26:40","slug":"rolls-royces-new-micro-reactor-design-could-send-humans-to-mars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/02\/rolls-royces-new-micro-reactor-design-could-send-humans-to-mars","title":{"rendered":"Rolls-Royce\u2019s new micro-reactor design could send humans to Mars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/rolls-royces-new-micro-reactor-design-could-send-humans-to-mars2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It is \u201cdesigned to use an inherently safe and extremely robust fuel form.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The future of deep space exploration is near. Rolls-Royce revealed a new image of a micro-reactor for space that it says is \u201cdesigned to use an inherently safe and extremely robust fuel form.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The iconic engineering firm recently tweeted the image alongside a caption. It is designing the nuclear fission system as part of an agreement it penned with the UK Space Agency in 2021.<\/p>\n<p>Nuclear propulsion systems for space, which harness the energy produced during the splitting of atoms, have great potential for accelerating space travel and reducing transit times. This could be of particular importance when sending humans to Mars\u2026 More.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Rolls-Royce\/Twitter.<\/p>\n<p>Rolls-Royce revealed a new image of a micro-reactor for space that it says is \u201cdesigned to use an inherently safe and extremely robust fuel form.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/02\/rolls-royces-new-micro-reactor-design-could-send-humans-to-mars\">Continue reading \u201cRolls-Royce\u2019s new micro-reactor design could send humans to Mars\u201d | &gt;<\/a><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is \u201cdesigned to use an inherently safe and extremely robust fuel form.\u201d The future of deep space exploration is near. Rolls-Royce revealed a new image of a micro-reactor for space that it says is \u201cdesigned to use an inherently safe and extremely robust fuel form.\u201d The iconic engineering firm recently tweeted the image alongside [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,873,48,1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-157042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-engineering","category-nuclear-energy","category-particle-physics","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157042","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\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=157042"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157042\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=157042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=157042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=157042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}