{"id":209450,"date":"2025-03-21T17:19:29","date_gmt":"2025-03-21T22:19:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/us-firms-plan-nuclear-powered-spacecraft-for-deep-space-exploration"},"modified":"2025-03-21T17:19:29","modified_gmt":"2025-03-21T22:19:29","slug":"us-firms-plan-nuclear-powered-spacecraft-for-deep-space-exploration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/us-firms-plan-nuclear-powered-spacecraft-for-deep-space-exploration","title":{"rendered":"US firms plan nuclear-powered spacecraft for deep space exploration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/2cZQDQqESsw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The goal of enabling extended deep-space exploration is driving NASA, space agencies, and private players to explore nuclear power solutions.<\/p>\n<p>Recently, two Southern California-based startups, Exlabs and Antares Nuclear, announced a partnership to advance deep-space missions with nuclear-powered spacecraft.<\/p>\n<p><em>SpaceNews<\/em> reported that the Exlabs\u2019 Science Exploration and Resource Vehicle (SERV) spacecraft will be equipped with Antares microreactors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The goal of enabling extended deep-space exploration is driving NASA, space agencies, and private players to explore nuclear power solutions. Recently, two Southern California-based startups, Exlabs and Antares Nuclear, announced a partnership to advance deep-space missions with nuclear-powered spacecraft. SpaceNews reported that the Exlabs\u2019 Science Exploration and Resource Vehicle (SERV) spacecraft will be equipped with [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[873,1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-209450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nuclear-energy","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209450","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=209450"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209450\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}