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Re:Magnetoplasma drive could make Mars transit take 39 days? by Gravityloss on Thursday August 20, 2020 @04:23PM (#24228440)
Cooling is hard in space. It is hard and expensive to get good power to weight ratios.
Re:Magnetoplasma drive could make Mars transit take 39 days? by ColanR on Thursday August 20, 2020 @04:56PM (#24228853)
There's a lot of hard problems in space, though. We've solved a few of them - enough, at least, so that talking about large nuclear reactors in space should not be dismissed as a hoax.