Russia has signed a contract to begin the development of a nuclear-powered spacecraft for long-range flights to the Moon, Jupiter and Venus, reports said.
Documents on the state procurement website show that Russian space agency Roscosmos signed the contract with St. Petersburg design bureau KB Arsenal for the preliminary design of nuclear spacecraft called Nucleon, which will be used for flights into deep space.
The contract, worth 4.2 billion rubles ($57m €46m) was signed on 10 December and was for the “development of a preliminary design for the creation of a space system with a nuclear-based transport and energy module”.
Documents on the state procurement website show that Russian space agency Roscosmos signed the contract with St. Petersburg design bureau KB Arsenal for the preliminary design of nuclear spacecraft called Nucleon, which will be used for flights into deep space.
The contract, worth 4.2 billion rubles ($57m €46m) was signed on 10 December and was for the “development of a preliminary design for the creation of a space system with a nuclear-based transport and energy module”.
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