Bethesda-based Lockheed Martin won a contract to develop and demonstrate a nuclear-powered spacecraft. ... The reactor will not be turned on until the spacecraft has reached a nuclear safe orbit, ...

Under a US$33.7-million Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) contract, Lockheed Martin is developing a next-generation nuclear-reactor-powered spacecraft for the Joint Emergent Technology ...

Lockheed Martin gets contract to develop and test nuclear-powered spacecraft 02:07. With a growing number of aerospace companies, Colorado continues to leave its mark in space.

BWX Technologies, based in Lynchburg, Va., will build the nuclear fission reactor at the heart of the engine. The $499 million program is named DRACO, short for the Demonstration Rocket for Agile ...

Lockheed Martin has secured a $33.7 million grant from the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) to advance its Joint Emergent Technology Supplying On-Orbit Nuclear (JETSON) High Power program ...

The aerospace giant will develop power and propulsion systems under its JETSON project. Lockheed Martin has been handed a contract to work on nuclear-powered spacecraft technologies. The U.S. Air ...

Lockheed Martin has won a $500 million contract from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to develop a nuclear-powered ... The nuclear-powered reactor will be built in Lynchburg, ...

Lockheed Martin was awarded a contract by federal agency DARPA in partnership with NASA to build out an experimental nuclear-powered spacecraft headed for a Space Coast launch that aims to make tri… ...

Lockheed is designing a spacecraft that can carry an experimental nuclear reactor engine and fuel developed by Virginia-based BWXT. Sections. AI & ML ... WASHINGTON — The Defense Advanced Research ...

Nuclear thermal power uses a fission-based nuclear reactor to heat hydrogen to an extremely high temperature and then shoot the gas through an engine nozzle to create thrust. Lockheed Martin ...

Lockheed Martin will work on the spacecraft for the demonstration — known as the experimental nuclear thermal rocket vehicle, or X-NTRV. Meanwhile, BWX Technologies will focus on building the ...

--Lockheed Martin has won a contract from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to develop and demonstrate a nuclear-powered spacecraft under a project called Demonstration Rocket for ...