{"id":80500,"date":"2018-07-09T14:02:57","date_gmt":"2018-07-09T21:02:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/07\/x-spacex-raptor-designer-has-ready-for-development-designs-for-nuclear-rocket-that-will-be-up-to-7-times-better-than-bfr"},"modified":"2018-07-09T14:02:57","modified_gmt":"2018-07-09T21:02:57","slug":"x-spacex-raptor-designer-has-ready-for-development-designs-for-nuclear-rocket-that-will-be-up-to-7-times-better-than-bfr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/07\/x-spacex-raptor-designer-has-ready-for-development-designs-for-nuclear-rocket-that-will-be-up-to-7-times-better-than-bfr","title":{"rendered":"X-SpaceX Raptor designer has ready for development designs for nuclear rocket that will be up to 7 times better than BFR"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/x-spacex-raptor-designer-has-ready-for-development-designs-for-nuclear-rocket-that-will-be-up-to-7-times-better-than-bfr.png\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><A href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/john-bucknell-pe-7111a47\/\">John Bucknell created the pre-conceptual design for the SpaceX Raptor engine.<\/A> It will be the advanced full-flow staged combustion rocket engine for the SpaceX BFR. He designed and built the subscale Raptor rocket for proof of concept testing able to test eighty-one configurations of main injector.<\/p>\n<p>John Bucknell says the nuclear turbo rocket technology and his designs are ready for development. The air-breathing nuclear thermal rocket will enable 7 times more payload fraction to be delivered to low-earth orbit and it will have 6 times the ISP (rocket fuel efficiency) as chemical rockets. The rocket will have two to three times the speed and performance of chemical rockets for missions outside of the atmosphere.<\/p>\n<p>The fully reusable nuclear rocket will be a single stage to orbit system which will be able to make space-based solar power several times cheaper than coal power. Using the 11-meter diameter version of this rocket to build space-based solar power will enable solar power at less than 2 cents per kilowatt-hour.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nextbigfuture.com\/2018\/07\/x-spacex-raptor-designer-has-ready-for-development-designs-for-nuclear-rocket-that-will-be-2-7-times-better-than-bfr.html\">https:\/\/www.nextbigfuture.com\/2018\/07\/x-spacex-raptor-design...n-bfr.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Bucknell created the pre-conceptual design for the SpaceX Raptor engine. It will be the advanced full-flow staged combustion rocket engine for the SpaceX BFR. He designed and built the subscale Raptor rocket for proof of concept testing able to test eighty-one configurations of main injector. John Bucknell says the nuclear turbo rocket technology and [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":354,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[873,1633,1514,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nuclear-energy","category-solar-power","category-space-travel","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80500","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\/354"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80500"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80500\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}