Rolls-Royce is now aiming to “have a reactor ready to send to the Moon by 2029.”
The UK Space Agency said on Friday it would invest a significant amount in Rolls-Royce's project to produce nuclear power on the moon., the UKSA outlined how researchers from Rolls-Royce had been working on a Micro-Reactor program "to develop technology that will provide the power needed for humans to live and work on the Moon."The government agency will now invest £2.
"All space missions depend on a power source to support systems for communications, life-support, and science experiments," the UKSA said. "Nuclear power has the potential to dramatically increase the duration of future Lunar missions and their scientific value."At the time, the firm was looking into how a micro-nuclear reactor could be used to propel rockets while in space at huge speeds and how that technology could then be redeployed to provide energy for drilling, processing, and storage for "Moon mining" and possibly "Mars mining.
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