Propellant Requirements for a Nuclear Thermal Rocket with 100-Mg of Payload and Structure

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JFS 1999

University of Wisconsin

• Note: Launching nuclear thermal rockets from Earth is problematic.

• Assumes exhaust velocity=9.41 km/s, based on S.K. Borowski’s LANTR concept (see paper AIAA-97-2956).

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