{"id":88961,"date":"2019-03-27T08:22:28","date_gmt":"2019-03-27T15:22:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/03\/pentagon-to-assemble-nuclear-rocket-in-orbit-by-2020"},"modified":"2019-03-27T08:22:28","modified_gmt":"2019-03-27T15:22:28","slug":"pentagon-to-assemble-nuclear-rocket-in-orbit-by-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/03\/pentagon-to-assemble-nuclear-rocket-in-orbit-by-2020","title":{"rendered":"Pentagon to Assemble Nuclear Rocket in Orbit by 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/pentagon-to-assemble-nuclear-rocket-in-orbit-by-2020.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>According to the report, the Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has requested at least $10 million for its Reactor on a Rocket (ROAR) programme.<\/p>\n<p>The Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency intends to assemble a nuclear thermal propulsion (NTP) system in orbit, Aviation Week reported, citing the Pentagon\u2019s 2020 budget.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe program will initially develop the use of additive manufacturing approaches to print NTP fuel elements\u2026 In addition, the program will investigate on-orbit assembly techniques (AM) to safely assemble the individual core element subassemblies into a full demonstration system configuration, and will perform a technology demonstration\u201d, the budget document says.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/sputniknews.com\/military\/201903261073548917-us-darpa-nuclear-reactor\/\">https:\/\/sputniknews.com\/military\/201903261073548917-us-darpa-nuclear-reactor\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to the report, the Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has requested at least $10 million for its Reactor on a Rocket (ROAR) programme. The Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency intends to assemble a nuclear thermal propulsion (NTP) system in orbit, Aviation Week reported, citing the Pentagon\u2019s 2020 budget. \u201cThe program will initially develop [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":354,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1497,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88961","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-military"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88961","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\/354"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88961"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88961\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}