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“This demonstration will be a crucial step in meeting our Moon to Mars objectives for crew transportation into deep space," said the deputy administrator of NASA.
The Draco project will have a nuclear engine that is much more efficient than engines powered by conventional chemical fuel sources for space travel.
NASA is working on a project to use nuclear thermal propulsion. It has been named DRACO or Demonstration Rocket for Agile Cislunar Operations and it aims to have an in-space test of Nuclear Thermal Propulsion or the NPT. Know the technical detail.
The in-space flight demonstration of a nuclear thermal rocket engine vehicle will take place no later than 2027.
DARPA Selects Lockheed To Develop Nuclear Thermal Rocket For Mars Mission NASA and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) awarded Lockheed…