How power is blazing a trail for America’s space effort — and for nuclear startups
7 Apr 2023
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As more and more hardware goes into Earth orbit, and eventually to the moon and Mars, where will the power to run all those machines come from?
That’s one of the questions under consideration at a State of the Space Industrial Base workshop that’s being conducted this week at Seattle’s Museum of Flight.
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