Lockheed Martin to Build Experimental Nuclear Propulsion System for Joint DARPA and NASA Collaboration Micah Hanks·July 27, 2023DARPA and NASA have selected Lockheed Martin to help build a nuclear propulsion rocket capable of taking humans to Mars for future missions.
NASA’s DART Spacecraft Is On Its Way Toward a Collision With an Asteroid Moon Micah Hanks·September 8, 2022This week's Intelligence Brief examines NASA's plans to smash its DART spacecraft into an asteroiod moonlet millions of miles away from Earth later this month.
DART Returns First Photos Readying for Asteroid Smash Christopher Plain·January 5, 2022NASA’s DART (Double Asteroid Redirection Test) spacecraft has returned its first photos, proving its onboard navigation camera survived...
New DRACO Program Will Use Nuclear Propulsion For Future Lunar Missions MJ Banias·April 13, 2021DARPA recently awarded $22 million to San Diego-based General Atomics to design a mini nuclear reactor for space propulsion.