REQUEST FOR INFORMATION (RFI), LRO, Propulsion Subsystem THIS IS *NOT* A REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL, QUOTATION, OR INVITATION TO BID NOTICE. RFI Purpose: The Robotic Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) ...

DARPA is funding a nuclear thermal orbital flight demonstration by 2025. The Demonstration Rocket for Agile Cislunar Operations (DRACO) program is to demonstrate a nuclear thermal propulsion (NTP) ...

DULLES, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Orbital ATK, Inc. (NYSE:OA), a global leader in aerospace and defense technologies, announced today it received an award for a Future ICBM Sustainment and Acquisition ...

NASA has recently tested a propulsion system for its future lunar space station. The agency conducted the ground test of a subsystem for their Power and Propulsion Element (PPE), according to a NASA ...

Desert Works Propulsion expands U.S. ion propulsion capability through domestic manufacturing partnership and test capacity growth ...

DENVER, Aug. 5, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Voyager Space (Voyager), a global leader in space exploration, today announced the company was selected by Lockheed Martin to support the delivery of an advanced ...

NASA/GSFC plans to issue a Request for Proposal (RFP) for the Propulsion Subsystem for the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) Project office under the Robotic Lunar Exploration Program. The Government ...

Engineers at NASA’s Glenn Research Center are advancing the propulsion system that will propel the first ever mission to redirect an asteroid for astronauts to explore in the 2020s. NASA’s Asteroid ...

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 ...

DARPA's nuclear space rocket project is progressing, with contracts awarded to General Atomics, Blue Origin, and Lockheed Martin for the first phase of the agency's Demonstration Rocket for Agile ...

The US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has awarded contracts for the first phase of its Demonstration Rocket for Agile Cislunar Operations programme to demonstrate a nuclear thermal ...

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 ...