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Space nuclear power is nearing critical mass as the final frontier’s next frontier

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The project is funded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, or DARPA, and is known as the Demonstration Rocket for Agile Cislunar Operations, or DRACO. The program’s goal is to put a 10-kilowatt demonstration reactor on the lunar surface by as soon as 2027. said progress has been slow.

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