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Credit: DARPA
General Atomics has received a $22.2 million contract from DARPA to begin designing a nuclear thermal propulsion system for a future spacecraft, the Defense Department announced on April 9. The award begins a two-track Phase 1 for the Demonstration Rocket for Agile Cislunar Operations (Draco)...
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