Rolls Royce is in serious trouble right now. They are still on the hook for the 787 engine troubles, they don't earn any money with their power by the hour program thanks to the coronavirus, they sold their power generation branch to Siemens, they fell behind technologically compared to GE and have been forced to freeze the development of their next generation ultrafan engine due to a serious lack of funds. I won't be surprised if Rolls Royce wouldn't survive 2021.
I dont think they're planning on throwing radioactive material out the rocket nozzle you clown. The nuclear reactor simply provides massive heat energy to a propellant, its not a nuclear bomb.
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Those nuclear rocket engines were much more powerful than chemical rockets - Higher Specific Impulse and Total Impulse.
My father actually did some work on them.
Rolls Royce is in serious trouble right now. They are still on the hook for the 787 engine troubles, they don't earn any money with their power by the hour program thanks to the coronavirus, they sold their power generation branch to Siemens, they fell behind technologically compared to GE and have been forced to freeze the development of their next generation ultrafan engine due to a serious lack of funds. I won't be surprised if Rolls Royce wouldn't survive 2021.
Not only that, the UK-Japan trade agreement has, in fact, stricter rules on state aid [ft.com] than the EU asked for.
An obvious solution is to camouflage the aid as boondoggle contracts for stuff like nuclear rocket engines.
One thing you Yanks have forgotten is that there are no space dentists on Mars. Doesn't bother us brits.
As long as we don't run out of space tea and warm space beer.
I dont think they're planning on throwing radioactive material out the rocket nozzle you clown. The nuclear reactor simply provides massive heat energy to a propellant, its not a nuclear bomb.