The first of the "Thousand Astronomical Unit" space probes designed from the late 70's into the 80's. Nuclear electric propulsion would send the craft on a fifty-year mission into interplanetary space to test technologies for a future true interstellar mission, for deep-space science and to map...
1970s
1980s
deep space probes
interstellar space
jet propulsion laboratory
nasa
nuclear power
nuclear rockets
nuclear-electric propulsion
solar system
stellarcartography
thousand astronomical unit
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