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.

  • Hotdogman@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    33 million? Sounds like this project is about to overrun 20ish billion before they " find out " that they can’t do it.

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      1 year ago

      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.

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        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.