Christin Houston, president of Space Motor Plants and US energy Systems, said the cosmic nuclear energy technology and campaigning factories are ready for a breakthrough after decades of development, however, their industrial deployment will require consistent state participation. About this report Release Spacenews.
According to the head, the company she headed on the verge created a nuclear settings, which will produce heat and electricity.
These decisions can be completed and ready to fly in the next five years, the top manager said.
Houston recalled that L3Harris Technologies continued to operate on the Surface Power (FSP) program. In her opinion, nuclear technologies are of special importance in future missions on Mars.
In July 2023, the publication reported that NASA and its promising research projects of the US Department of Defense chose a nuclear engine created by Lockheed Martin Group as part of the protest for Agile Cislunar (Draco) activities.
After that, Spacenews realized that NASA should continue to work under the FSP nuclear reactor program created for the moon tasks at the end of Artemis.