DARPA awards 3 deals for work on nuclear propulsion system
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. The Demonstration Rocket for Agile Cislunar Operations (DRACO) program has the po