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Re:Last Flight Out by mjevans on Thursday February 16, 2023 @01:21AM (#34815703)
An unfortunate early design. Hopefully the engineering knowledge and access to far better design tools that have developed in the interleaving ~50 years would allow for a much better design today.

Though my hopes must be tempered by the prospect of greed. It would be better if the government(s) created an open design which could reuse off the shelf or components that any corporation could compete to create.

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Re:Last Flight Out by qikInNdOutReply on Thursday February 16, 2023 @08:15AM (#34818217)
Eh, no.. a failed concept, to grasp the techological deep roots needed to supply something with specialists and machinery at all times, at a location that is 9 months off limits.
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Re:Last Flight Out by jasonwatkinspdx on Thursday February 16, 2023 @11:15AM (#34820606)
DARPA and NASA are currently developing designs to do exactly that under Kilopower, Megapower, and similar programs. Enabling long duration unmanned deep space missions is explicitly one of NASA's goals with this.
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Re:Last Flight Out by qikInNdOutReply on Thursday February 16, 2023 @12:14PM (#34821655)
And then the helium and hydrogen, turned the containement vessel into a sieve over the long run, pushing the vessel of course. The end.
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