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DARPA chooses three firms to design nuclear-powered space vehicle 5 hours ago DARPA believes nuclear-powered propulsion could enable rapid maneuver in space — a capability that is difficult to achieve with current electric and chemical propulsion systems. (U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) WASHINGTON — The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has picked three companies to design a nuclear thermal propulsion system that will operate above low Earth orbit in 2025, the U.S. agency announced April 12. General Atomics, Blue Origin and Lockheed Martin received contract ...

The contracts from the Pentagon's Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) direct Blue Origin, as well as Lockheed Martin and ...

DARPA The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), the Department of Defense’s research and development arm, has announced a team will create the world’s first nuclear thermal propulsion (NTP) engine. Nuclear thermal propulsion engines use nuclear fission to heat liquid hydrogen, squirting it out the rear of the rocket to create thrust. The DRACO rocket would be used for transit between Earth and the moon, but it would also make for faster transit across the solar system. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), the Pentagon’s research and development arm, is f...

Politics “But what is government itself, but the greatest of all reflections on human nature?” –James Madison, Federalist 51 “They had one weapon left and both knew it: treachery.” –Frank Herbert, Dune “They had learned nothing, and forgotten nothing.” –Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord Capitol Seizure “Pelosi says she would have put up a fight against Capitol mob: ‘I’m a street fighter'” [The Hill]. “House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) says in a new interview that she would have put up a fight had she encountered rioters at the Capitol on Jan. 6.” • E...

DARPA awards nuclear spacecraft contracts to Lockheed Martin, Bezos’ Blue Origin and General Atomics The Pentagon’s DARPA awarded contracts to General Atomics, Lockheed Martin and Jeff Bezos’ space venture Blue Origin under the agency’s DRACO (Demonstration Rocket for Agile Cislunar Operations) program. The Pentagon’s research and development arm on Monday awarded a trio of companies with contracts to build and demonstrate a nuclear-based propulsion system on a spacecraft in orbit by 2025. General Atomics, Lockheed Martin and Jeff Bezos’ space venture Blue Origin won the Defen...