{"id":113661,"date":"2020-10-01T03:22:24","date_gmt":"2020-10-01T10:22:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/10\/u-s-darpa-tasks-gryphon-with-nuclear-thermal-propulsion-system"},"modified":"2020-10-01T03:22:24","modified_gmt":"2020-10-01T10:22:24","slug":"u-s-darpa-tasks-gryphon-with-nuclear-thermal-propulsion-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/10\/u-s-darpa-tasks-gryphon-with-nuclear-thermal-propulsion-system","title":{"rendered":"U.S. DARPA tasks Gryphon with nuclear thermal propulsion system"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/u-s-darpa-tasks-gryphon-with-nuclear-thermal-propulsion-system2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Gryphon provides digital engineering, analytics, cyber and cloud solutions to U.S. security organizations. It was awarded a $14million DARPA task order to support the development and demonstration of an uranium-based Nuclear Thermal Propulsion (NTP) System.<\/p>\n<p>The system is a part of the Demonstration Rocket for Agile Cislunar Operations (DRACO) program and will enable the U.S. military to operate spacecraft in cislunar space, Gryphon said. The cislunar space is the region outside the Earth\u2019s atmosphere and just beyond the Moon\u2019s orbit.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA successfully demonstrated NTP system will provide a leap-ahead in space propulsion capability, allowing agile and rapid transit over vast distances as compared to present propulsion approaches,\u201d said Gryphon\u2019s Chief Engineer Dr. Tabitha Dodson.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGryphon is committed to providing high-end technical solutions to our nation\u2019s most critical national security challenges,\u201d said P.J. Braden, CEO of Gryphon. \u201cWe are proud to support DRACO and the development and demonstration of NTP, a significant technological advancement in efforts to achieve cislunar space awareness.\u201d<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Berlin, 30 September 2020. \u2014 The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) tasked DC-based Gryphon Technologies to develop a nuclear thermal propulsion system, the firm announced yesterday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gryphon provides digital engineering, analytics, cyber and cloud solutions to U.S. security organizations. It was awarded a $14million DARPA task order to support the development and demonstration of an uranium-based Nuclear Thermal Propulsion (NTP) System. The system is a part of the Demonstration Rocket for Agile Cislunar Operations (DRACO) program and will enable the U.S. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":580,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,9,1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-113661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-engineering","category-military","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113661","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/580"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113661"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113661\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}