The Design Bureau "Fakel" spoke about the development of an engine for flights to the border of the solar system

According to him, we are talking about the so-called BPRD - an electrodeless plasma rocket engine.

"OKB" Fakel "under the scientific guidance of the National Research Center" Kurchatov Institute "is developing an electric rocket engine of very high power, the so-called BPRD.

It will need a nuclear power source.

Its tasks will include interplanetary flights, and in the future - flights to the edge of the solar system, ”TASS quotes him.

Abramenkov indicated that it would be a two-stage engine in which the plasma would flow through a central channel.

At the end of November, the Russian Aerospace Forces launched a Soyuz-2.1b carrier rocket with a spacecraft from the Plesetsk cosmodrome in the interests of the Ministry of Defense.