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NASA and DARPA announced they awarded Lockheed Martin and BWX Technologies to build and develop a nuclear thermal rocket (NTR) engine. Lockheed Martin and BWX…

ORLANDO — Lockheed Martin was awarded a contract by federal agency DARPA in partnership with NASA to build out an experimental nuclear-powered spacecraft that aims to make trips to the

Going Nuclear NASA, joined by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), could be testing a nuclear-powered rocket in space within the next three years. On Wednesday, the agencies announced that the aerospace company Lockheed Martin will design, build, and test a nuclear propulsion system as part of an ambitious new program called the Demonstration […]

Nuclear propulsion could cut a trip to Mars to just 3 to 4 months.

NASA, working with DARPA, is launching a bold mission to send humans to Mars using nuclear-powered rocket engines.

DARPA and NASA are advancing toward the goal of the world’s first in-orbit demonstration of a nuclear thermal rocket (NTR) engine via DRACO, the Demonstration

Lockheed is designing a spacecraft that can carry an experimental nuclear reactor engine and fuel developed by Virginia-based BWXT.

Groundbreaking contract, valued at $500 million, is a major jump in space exploration with nuclear thermal propulsion engines

The Space Force is interested in DRACO primarily as an option for allowing it to undertake rapid on-orbit maneuvers, but also for potential future missions out to the Moon, Mars and beyond.

WASHINGTON, July 27, 2023 (BSS/AFP) - NASA and the US military said Wednesday they had selected defense contractor Lockheed Martin