Re:The Plasma Magnet Drive: A Simple, Cheap Drive for the So...
by 24gttghh on Wednesday January 10, 2018 @02:58PM
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As of a few years ago, the DOE started making Plutonium again in partnership with NASA [0]. And as of last year that appeared to be still happening [1]. And this Plasma magnet still would need something like an RPS to get past Jupiter, according to the article:
>Using a steady, nuclear power or beamed power source, such a craft could accelerate to the heliopause, allowing interstellar precursor missions, such as Kuiper belt exploration and the FOCAL mission within a short time frame.
>Using a steady, nuclear power or beamed power source, such a craft could accelerate to the heliopause, allowing interstellar precursor missions, such as Kuiper belt exploration and the FOCAL mission within a short time frame.
[0]https://www.popsci.com/plutonium-238-is-produced-in-america-...
[1]https://rps.nasa.gov/news/21/a-step-forward-in-reestablishin...