Power and Technologies

Nuclear Power Assessment Study Report to NETS - February 2015

• Nuclear Power Assessment Study - Final Report - 4 February 2015 (accessiblie via this page)
• The 2014 NASA Nuclear Power Assessment Study (NPAS): Safety, Environmental Impact, and Launch Approval Considerations and Findings
• The Nuclear Power Assessment Study
• Mission Study Results Investigating Advanced Radioisotope Power Systems and Fission Power Systems
• Reference Power System Options for the Nuclear Power Assessment Study
• The 2014 NASA Nuclear Power Assessment Study:Assembly, Test and Launch Operations Comparisons between a Notional 1 kWe Fission Power System and a Conventional Radioisotope Power System
• Report of the RPS Provisioning Strategy Team

Power Systems

• McNutt presentation on Radioisotope Electric Propulsion at the Space
  Technology and Applications International Forum February 2006
• Schmidt and Houts presentation on Radioisotope-based Nuclear Power
  Strategy for Exploration Systems Development at the Space Technology
  and Applications International Forum February 2006
  

Jupiter

Jupiter Icy Moon Orbiter (JIMO)/Prometheus

• Jupiter Icy Moon Orbiter High Capability Instrument Feasibility Study Final Study Report (2004)
• Jupiter Icy Moon Orbiter High Capability Instrument Feasibility Study Executive Summary (2004)
• Overview: JPL
• NASA Selects Contractor for First Prometheus Mission to Jupiter
• Project Prometheus, the Nuclear Systems Program
• NASA's Space Vision: Business Case for Prometheus 1 Needed to Ensure Requirements Match Available Resources (2005)

We're Running Out of the Nuclear Fuel That Powers Space Travel

Plutonium-238 and the Radioisotope Power Systems Supply Chain