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Thin Film Nuclear With Californium for Fast Gravitational Lensing Missions

Thin Film Nuclear With Californium for Fast Gravitational Lensing Missions

Jim Bickford is leading the Thin Film Isotope Nuclear Engine Rocket (TFINER) project to develop a system for propelling a craft through space faster and farther than ever before. TFINER is applicable to a wide range of other profound missions that are not possible with existing technology. For example, a mission to the solar gravitational ...Read Article
Thin Film Nuclear Propulsion
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Thin Film Nuclear Propulsion

NASA NIAC funded the Thin-Film Nuclear Engine Rocket (TFINER). By May 2025, it advanced to Phase II, focusing on maturing the technology, mission designs, small-scale thruster experiments, and isotope production pathways in collaboration with Northwestern University, Yale University, Los Alamos National Laboratory, and NASA Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC) for hybrid architectures. A single stage ...Read Article
Inflatable StarShade Will Be Used to Image Earthlike Exoplanets

Inflatable StarShade Will Be Used to Image Earthlike Exoplanets

John Mather, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, is designing the first family of ISEE’s (Inflatable Starshade for Earthlike Exoplanets) with sizes from 35 to 100 meters in diameter. A starshade would enable any telescope to observe exoplanets, a top priority for astronomy worldwide. Compared with other starshade concepts, they aim for a lower mass, cost ...Read Article

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