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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
The spacecraft, known as DRACO (Demonstration Rocket for Agile Cislunar Operations), is a project being led by NASA and the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA).
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.
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