The Draco bush plane was a Polish Wilga retrofitted with a PT6A turbine engine. Credit: Airbus Poland Airbus Poland has agreed to transfer the rights to the PZL-104 Wilga short-takeoff-and-landing ...
Lockheed Martin, in partnership with BWXT, will develop a vehicle for NASA and DARPA to demonstrate nuclear thermal propulsion technologies in Earth orbit. Credit: Lockheed Martin WASHINGTON — NASA ...
WASHINGTON — A DARPA official said the agency canceled a space nuclear propulsion project it was jointly developing with NASA in part because the effort was overtaken by advances in more conventional ...
Previous NASA rockets have used a variety of chemical fuels to get off the ground and move in space. The new Demonstration Rocket for Agile Cislunar Operations (DRACO) project seeks to use nuclear ...