{"id":23087,"date":"2016-03-03T14:48:34","date_gmt":"2016-03-03T22:48:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/03\/zoom-to-mars-in-6-weeks-with-new-russian-nuclear-fission-engine"},"modified":"2017-06-04T10:45:47","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T17:45:47","slug":"zoom-to-mars-in-6-weeks-with-new-russian-nuclear-fission-engine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/03\/zoom-to-mars-in-6-weeks-with-new-russian-nuclear-fission-engine","title":{"rendered":"Zoom to Mars in 6 weeks with new Russian nuclear-fission engine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/zoom-to-mars-in-6-weeks-with-new-russian-nuclear-fission-engine.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A nuclear power propulsion system could propel a spacecraft to Mars in just over a month, a huge step forward from the current 18 months required. Russia might test a nuclear engine as early as 2018, the head of the Rosatom nuclear corporation revealed.<\/p>\n<p>Another advantage of a nuclear engine is that it enables a spacecraft to maneuver throughout the flight, whereas existing technology only makes a defined trajectory flight possible.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/news\/334416-russia-space-nuclear-engine\/\">https:\/\/www.rt.com\/news\/334416-russia-space-nuclear-engine\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A nuclear power propulsion system could propel a spacecraft to Mars in just over a month, a huge step forward from the current 18 months required. Russia might test a nuclear engine as early as 2018, the head of the Rosatom nuclear corporation revealed. Another advantage of a nuclear engine is that it enables a [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":387,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[873,1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23087","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\/23087","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\/387"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23087"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23087\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62559,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23087\/revisions\/62559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}