DARPA Kicks Off Design, Fabrication for DRACO Experimental NTR Vehicle
"The DRACO program aims to give the nation leap-ahead propulsion capability".
7/26/2023
Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency: DARPA, in collaboration with NASA, is advancing toward the goal of the world’s first in-orbit demonstration of a nuclear thermal rocket (NTR) engine via DRACO, the Demonstration Rocket for Agile Cislunar Operations.
DARPA ha…