The Centrifugal Nuclear Thermal Rocket (CNTR) is a Nuclear Thermal Propulsion (NTP) concept designed to heat propellant ...

Nuclear thermal propulsion (NTP) has stood as a promising potential alternative propulsion technology for decades. Chemical ...

The DRACO project will test potentially revolutionary propulsion technology. NASA and the U.S. military plan to launch a nuclear-powered spacecraft to Earth orbit in late 2025 or early 2026.

NASA and other agencies also undertook Project Rover and Project NERVA, efforts that aimed to develop nuclear-thermal engines similar in concept to those now being pursued by the DRACO program.

USNC-Tech supported Blue Origin plus another team led by Lockheed Martin during an initial round of DRACO design work. Now DARPA and NASA will be working together on the next two rounds of the ...

Now, the initiative is gaining new traction in the modern era as the Demonstration Rocket for Agile Cislunar Operations, or DRACO, program. Research into nuclear thermal rocket engines by NASA ...

NASA and DARPA will partner on future phases of the DRACO program to demonstrate a space nuclear thermal propulsion system launching as soon as 2027. Credit: DARPA WASHINGTON — NASA and the ...

Two years after DARPA stepped in, the preliminary design phase was completed, and Lockheed won a half-billion-dollar contract to build DRACO. But DARPA wasn’t the only one paying. NASA chipped ...

Draco thrusters provide on-orbit maneuvering propulsion for the Dragon spacecraft. NASA said that it is working with SpaceX to identify the source of the elevated readings and take any corrective ...

NASA says humankind won't have the same fate. And you can actually watch the collision happen, live. During the DART mission, DRACO will take images throughout the flight and send them back to ...