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... AFB, Calif. ''(Wash. Post, 10/13/64; AP, NYT, 10/13/64, 31)'' Details of Phoebus -powered nuclear rocket engine, as described by Harold B. Finger , Director of NASA-AEC Space ... )'' The second-generation nuclear rocket would have 250,000-lb. thrust, using 5,000-megawatt Phoebus reactor. In clustered formation, the engines could launch manned space-craft out of earth orbit ... Mars trajectory. Ground-test firings of first-generation ''(low-power)'' Phoebus would be conducted in 1965-66, and tests of the heavier Phoebus reactor in 1967. ''(M&R, 10/12/64, 17 ...

... reentered Mar. 6. ''(Pres Rep 1967; Goddard Space Flight Center GSFC SSR, 3/ 15/67)'' Phoebus IB reactor was operated for 45 min-30 min at 1,500-mw design power ... on reactor-including test conditions to be found in 5,000-mw Phoebus 2, slated for test late this year. Phoebus series would provide advanced technology for solid-core graphite rocket reactors ...

... , except for the Pewee, which was about half of that at 500MW. The 55-inch Phoebus 2A, still the world’s most powerful reactor at 5000 MW, needed hydrogen at 280 ... see it had 534 fuel elements, but 132 were duds, much more than the KIWI, Phoebus and NRX reactors. This is about 25% of the core, rather than a 7th. The ... -inches, 30-inches, 35-inches, 40-inches, 45-inches, and 50-inches up to a Phoebus 2A size 55-inches. Obviously, as the core increases in size so do its thrusting ...

... consist­ing of high-temperature fuel capsules integrated into safe flight pack­age. Second Phoebus test reactor, Phoebus-2A, was being assembled at Nuclear Rocket Development Station in Nevada; testing was scheduled ...

... -1970's, Brown said. ''(up:, W Star, 7/7/68, A7)'' Successful test-firing of Phoebus 2A, world's most powerful reactor, June 26 might have been catalyst needed to bring ... interested in military applications for nuclear engine, so were scientists and engineers representing aerospace industry. Phoebus firing would be followed in fall by first test of smaller NERVA XE-1 nuclear ...

... , for design and development of a liquid-hydroGen. re-generatively cooled exhaust nozzle for the Phoebus nuclear rocket reactor test program. First phase of the contract would include a four-month ... II would be awarded as an incentive contract with an estimated value of $10 million. Phoebus , a 5,000-megawatt reactor, would be tested as part of the program to develop ...

... booster. ''(UPI, Chic. Trib, 6/26/65; U.S. Aeron. & Space Act, 1965, 146)'' First Phoebus 1A nuclear reactor test was conducted at NRDS, the reactor operating successfully at full power ... when the facility liquid hydrogen supply was unexpectedly exhausted. Test was part of NASA-AEC Phoebus program to extend graphite reactor technology developed under the Kiwi series to higher power and ...

... at a critical moment. . . ." ''(Text, ASC News)'' July 12-19: "Cold flow" test series of Phoebus 2 nuclear reactor was successfully conducted at NRDS as part of NASA-AEC Project Rover ... "start-up" operations; and obtain initial experience on the hook-up and test operations of Phoebus 2 reactors in test facility. Assembly used for experiments in "cold flow" tests was identical ...

... rocket motor, In nuclear rocket technology, three Nerva reactor experiments were completed and the new Phoebus advanced graphite reactor test program was begun. The success of a 2,600-hr. ion ...

... at Vandenberg AFB . In joint NASA-AEC effort, propulsion technology highlights included power tests of Phoebus 2A nuclear reactor, first tests of cold-flow test engine in flight configuration in new ...

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