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Media Monitor: MIT Technology Review Reports NASA Plans Nuclear-Powered Mars Spacecraft by 2028

21 Oct 2026 5:00 a.m. · Source: MIT Technology Review

MIT Technology Review reports NASA aims to launch Space Reactor-1 Freedom, the first nuclear-reactor-powered interplanetary spacecraft, on an uncrewed Mars mission by late 2028, arriving in 2029.

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