{"id":158248,"date":"2023-02-16T14:27:25","date_gmt":"2023-02-16T20:27:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/02\/fission-rocket-concept-could-reach-solar-gravitation-lens-in-15-years"},"modified":"2023-02-16T14:27:25","modified_gmt":"2023-02-16T20:27:25","slug":"fission-rocket-concept-could-reach-solar-gravitation-lens-in-15-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/02\/fission-rocket-concept-could-reach-solar-gravitation-lens-in-15-years","title":{"rendered":"Fission rocket concept could reach Solar Gravitation Lens in 15 years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/fission-rocket-concept-could-reach-solar-gravitation-lens-in-15-years2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The concept could one day capture incredibly detailed images of distant alien worlds.<\/p>\n<p>NASA is betting on nuclear propulsion technologies. The space agency\u2019s Institute of Advanced Concepts (NIAC) awarded a grant to a company called Positron Dynamics for the development of a novel type of nuclear fission fragment rocket engine (FFRE).<\/p>\n<p>The lightweight nuclear fission engine concept could outperform traditional chemical rocket engines while also allowing for long-lasting, deep space missions.<\/p>\n<p>NASA says it could travel to the Solar Gravitational Lens in 15 years, allowing for incredibly detailed images of distant alien worlds.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>NASA, Ryan Weed.<\/p>\n<p>The space agency\u2019s Institute of Advanced Concepts (NIAC) awarded a grant to a company called Positron Dynamics for the development of a novel type of nuclear fission fragment rocket engine (FFRE).<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/02\/fission-rocket-concept-could-reach-solar-gravitation-lens-in-15-years\">Continue reading \u201cFission rocket concept could reach Solar Gravitation Lens in 15 years\u201d | &gt;<\/a><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The concept could one day capture incredibly detailed images of distant alien worlds. NASA is betting on nuclear propulsion technologies. The space agency\u2019s Institute of Advanced Concepts (NIAC) awarded a grant to a company called Positron Dynamics for the development of a novel type of nuclear fission fragment rocket engine (FFRE). The lightweight nuclear fission [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-158248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chemistry","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158248","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=158248"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158248\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=158248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=158248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=158248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}