Proposed new rocket design - Isp 1600

[Ravenex]

Found this in my news feed this morning.

https://www.nextbigfuture.com/2017/07/air-enhanced-nuclear-thermal-rocket-by-x-spacex-engineer.html

 

[HandsomeRob]

That's pretty cool

 

[MClark]

Show a working prototype, then I will be impressed.
Nuclear propulsion, what happens when there is a failure at launch?
We can't go to Florida or swim in the Atlantic anymore?

M

 

[Steve Shannon]

Show a working prototype, then I will be impressed.
Nuclear propulsion, what happens when there is a failure at launch?
We can't go to Florida or swim in the Atlantic anymore?

M

Not only nuclear propulsion, but nuclear propulsion for which the benefits of higher Isp are limited to within the atmosphere.

 

[dhbarr]

Not only nuclear propulsion, but nuclear propulsion for which the benefits of higher Isp are limited to within the atmosphere.

I'd be interested if they were showing other atmospheres, except I'm not sure how miniaturizeable.

 

[GlenP]

kind of resembles an Augie