{"id":143663,"date":"2022-08-05T22:23:07","date_gmt":"2022-08-06T03:23:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/08\/darpa-moving-forward-with-development-of-nuclear-powered-spacecraft"},"modified":"2022-08-05T22:23:07","modified_gmt":"2022-08-06T03:23:07","slug":"darpa-moving-forward-with-development-of-nuclear-powered-spacecraft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/08\/darpa-moving-forward-with-development-of-nuclear-powered-spacecraft","title":{"rendered":"DARPA moving forward with development of nuclear powered spacecraft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/darpa-moving-forward-with-development-of-nuclear-powered-spacecraft2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>WASHINGTON \u2013 The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency on May 4 issued a <a href=\"https:\/\/sam.gov\/opp\/af490b568d2a438498afa1e80bce63e5\/view\">solicitation<\/a> for proposals for the next phase of a demonstration of a nuclear powered spacecraft.<\/p>\n<p>The project, called Demonstration Rocket for Agile Cislunar Operations (DRACO), <a href=\"https:\/\/spacenews.com\/darpa-selects-blue-origin-lockheed-martin-to-develop-spacecraft-for-nuclear-propulsion-demo\/\">started over a year ago<\/a> when DARPA selected a preliminary design for a rocket engine reactor developed by General Atomics, and chose two conceptual spacecraft designs by Blue Origin and Lockheed Martin.<\/p>\n<p>The next phases of the program will focus on the design, development, fabrication and assembly of a nuclear thermal rocket engine. DARPA will conduct a \u201cfull and open competition\u201d so this opportunity is not limited to the companies that participated in the first phase, a spokesperson told <em>SpaceNews<\/em>. Proposals are due Aug. 5.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON \u2013 The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency on May 4 issued a solicitation for proposals for the next phase of a demonstration of a nuclear powered spacecraft. The project, called Demonstration Rocket for Agile Cislunar Operations (DRACO), started over a year ago when DARPA selected a preliminary design for a rocket engine reactor developed [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,873,1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-143663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military","category-nuclear-energy","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143663","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\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=143663"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143663\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}