# NASA’s SR-1 Freedom Advances with Progress on Nuclear Power Module

- Source: NASA
- Published: 2026-10-20T18:11:33+00:00
- Category: Science
- Original: https://www.nasa.gov/centers-and-facilities/glenn/sr-1-freedom-advances-with-progress-on-nuclear-power-module/
- Canonical: https://groundlevelnews.com/story/nasa-s-sr-1-freedom-advances-with-progress-on-nuclear-power-module-6c182b/

Destined for Mars and beyond, NASA’s Space Reactor-1 (SR-1) Freedom will be humanity’s first fission-powered spacecraft to travel outside Earth’s orbit. Announced during NASA’s “Ignition” event, this mission will demonstrate nuclear electric propulsion in deep space, and progress is underway on its key element: the nuclear power module. To expedite development of the spacecraft, NASA […]

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