The cost and time to develop nuclear thermal propulsion systems are very approach dependent. The objectives addressed are the development of an ''acceptable'' nuclear thermal propulsion system that can be used as part of the transportation system for people to explore Mars and the enhancement performance of other missions, within highly constrained budgets and schedules. To accomplish this, it was necessary to identify the cost drivers considering mission parameters, safety of the crew, mission success, facility availability and time and cost to construct new facilities, qualification criteria, status of technologies, management structure, and use of such system engineering techniques as concurrent engineering.


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    Title :

    Development approach for nuclear thermal propulsion


    Contributors:
    D. Buden (author)

    Publication date :

    1992


    Size :

    11 pages


    Type of media :

    Report


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English




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