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: go back home : : team members : : mission : : technology : : references : : contact us :	Propulsion References : Oleg Batischev's Presentation and Supporting Documentation on EP concepts. Transformational Technology References "The performance and cost of available systems and technologies limit the prospects for the U.S. and the international community to achieve ambitious goals and objectives in future human and robotic exploration and development of space. Incremental improvements in the capabilities of current flight hardware are needed and useful, of course, but will not by themselves enable the transformation in performance, reliability and economics necessary to achieve ambitious visions for future space missions. New systems concepts and new technologies are needed. "As a result, it is important to the successful realization of ambitious future missions that NASA identify in a timely way highly innovative applications of emerging technologies to future space systems and architectures. The purpose of such innovations must be to make possible new capabilities that are more affordable and effective than current options, while improving safety. Moreover, the development of these technologies and applications may be expected to have broad benefits to a wide range of other space applications - for example, in communications or Earth-observing satellites - as well as finding beneficial applications in future markets." -John C. Mankins : NASA workshop at MIT : Workshop Agenda. : NASA workshop at MIT : 22.033/22.902 presentation on Space Nuclear Power concepts.