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US military gives Lockheed Martin $33.7 million to develop nuclear spacecraft (www.space.com)
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US military gives Lockheed Martin $33.7 million to develop nuclear spacecraft::The U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory just awarded $33.7 million to Lockheed Martin to advance the development of space nuclear propulsion and power tech.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

That's because it's just a grant for preliminary design and research work. They'll review it after this stage is complete to see how feasible it looks before going forward with further stages. It's not 33 million to develop a whole new kind of rocket propulsion system, that would be a ludicrously low price. It's in the article, though the headline is a bit vague on what the award actually is.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Its Lockheed, that's gonna get greenlit faster than a fly finding fresh dung

[–] shalafi 2 points 1 year ago

LOL, I was gonna say, $33M will get you a super nice set of wrenches and the best nuts and bolts mankind can produce.