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
