Pentagon Awards Lockheed $33.7M for Nuclear Spacecraft Project
An artistic rendering of a space nuclear reactor system designed to produce high-power electricity.Illustration: LANLLockheed Martin is at the early stages of developing a nuclear propulsion system to power a spacecraft through the depths of the cosmos.What Inspired Dominic Monaghan's Performance in Moriarty?Under a $33.7 million contract from the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL), Lockheed Martin announced that it was in the “preliminary design review stage” of the Joint Emergent Technology Supplying On-Orbit Nuclear…