23 Apr, 2025

NASA and DARPA award contract for Nuclear Rocket Engine

NASA and DARPA introduced they awarded Lockheed Martin and BWX Applied sciences to construct and develop a nuclear thermal rocket (NTR) engine. Lockheed Martin and BWX applied sciences below DARPA’s DRACO (the Demonstration Rocket for Agile Cislunar Operations) program and in partnership with NASA will construct the nuclear thermal rocket. NASA and DARPA are committing […]

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