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Nuclear In Space / Rolls-Royce Gets New Funding With Flight Demonstration Planned By End Of Decade

By David Dalton
22 July 2024

Company aiming to develop ‘whole system’ design of microreactor

Rolls-Royce Gets New Funding With Flight Demonstration Planned By End Of Decade
The Rolls-Royce microreactor could enable many space operations, including propulsion for satellites. Courtesy Rolls-Royce.
UK engineering giant Rolls-Royce has secured funding from the UK Space Agency for the development of its space nuclear power technology with an initial flight demonstration is anticipated by the end of this decade.

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