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The Demonstration Rocket for Agile Cislunar Operations (DRACO) is an under development launch vehicle by Lockheed Martin in partnership with BWX Technologies as part of a DARPA program. The vehicle is planned to be reusable and will utilize next generation nuclear thermal propulsion technology, to be demonstrated in 2027.
The engine is in the left background with a shield structure in the mid/foreground. A nuclear thermal rocket ( NTR) is a type of thermal rocket where the heat from a nuclear reaction replaces the chemical energy of the propellants in a chemical rocket. In an NTR, a working fluid, usually liquid hydrogen, is heated to a high temperature in a ...
SpaceX Draco. A SpaceX Dragon spacecraft approaching the International Space Station fires one of its 16 Draco thrusters. The SpaceX Draco is a hypergolic liquid rocket engine designed and built by SpaceX for use in their space capsules. Two engine types have been built to date: Draco and SuperDraco. The original Draco thruster is a small ...
The U.S. military is giving Lockheed Martin $33.7 million to make a nuclear-powered spacecraft. Here are the details.
The Armed Overwatch program is the seventh effort by the US military to evaluate or purchase commercial, off-the-shelf turboprop aircraft for reconnaissance and attack duties over the past fourteen years: it follows the US Navy's Imminent Fury combat test (2008), [21] the US Air Force's Light Attack/Armed Reconnaissance program (LAAR, 2009 ...
Lockheed Martin Space is one of the four major business divisions of Lockheed Martin. It has its headquarters in Littleton, Colorado, with additional sites in Valley Forge, Pennsylvania; Sunnyvale, California; Santa Cruz, California; Huntsville, Alabama; and elsewhere in the United States and United Kingdom. The division currently employs about ...
The Lockheed Martin Corporation is an American aerospace, arms, defense, information security, and technology corporation with worldwide interests. It was formed by the merger of Lockheed Corporation with Martin Marietta in March 1995. It is headquartered in North Bethesda, Maryland, in the Washington, D.C. area.
Parent department. United States Department of Defense. Website. www .darpa .mil. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency ( DARPA) is a research and development agency of the United States Department of Defense responsible for the development of emerging technologies for use by the military. [3] [4] Originally known as the Advanced ...