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Nuclear-Powered Spacecraft Is Proposed for Voyage to Jupiter Moons
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December 18th 03, 05:25 AM
Jim Kingdon
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Nuclear-Powered Spacecraft Is Proposed for Voyage to Jupiter Moons
And are you ready for this - it would be called the JIMO! :-)
The key thing here is "$8 billion".
Compare with the RTG powered missions at
http://centauri.larc.nasa.gov/newfrontiers/
for $700 million a pop.
Other links on JIMO:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/articl...NGON3J5RN1.DTL
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/jimo/
Jim Kingdon