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Credit: DARPA
Startup Dark Fission Space Systems announced plans on March 22 to build and demonstrate a nuclear thermal rocket engine in orbit within five years. The company is developing a nuclear thermal rocket engine as a more efficient, faster means of moving spacecraft through cislunar space, says Fred...
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