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DARPA awards 3 deals for work on nuclear propulsion system By (0) The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency awarded three contracts this week to design a nuclear thermal propulsion system. Photo courtesy of DARPA April 15 (UPI) -- The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency awarded three contracts this week to design a nuclear thermal propulsion system that will operate above low Earth orbit in 2025. General Atomics, Blue Origin, and Lockheed Martin are the prime contractors for the deal, according to a DARPA press release. Advertisement The Demonstration Rocket for Agile Cislunar Ope...

“The performer teams have demonstrated capabilities to develop and deploy advanced reactor, propulsion, and spacecraft systems,” said Major Nathan Greiner of the US Air Force, programme manager for DRACO. “The NTP technology we seek to develop and demonstrate under the DRACO programme aims to be foundational to future operations in space.” While both General Atomics and Lockheed Martin are well-established companies with a history of government collaboration on aerospace and defence projects, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos’s Blue Origin is a relative newcomer to the sector. Although in e...