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American SBSP advocates have achieved legislative milestones, including language in the NASA-DOE Interagency Coordination Bill passed by the House of Representatives.

Mentioned as: U.S. Department of EnergyNarrative GeneralJun 9, 2025Space-based solar power: A new frontier in US energy security

To advance SBSP, Congress should direct the Departments of Energy and Commerce to complete a joint 120-day feasibility study with support from NASA and the Department of Defense.

Mentioned as: U.S. Department of EnergyNarrative GeneralJun 9, 2025Space-based solar power: A new frontier in US energy security

NASA will partner with the U.S. Department of Energy to provide lightweight radioisotope heater units for the Rosalind Franklin rover.

Mentioned as: U.S. Department of EnergyOrg RelationshipMay 16, 2024NASA + ESA unite for work on the ExoMars Rosalind Franklin rover

LuSEE-Night, a NASA and Department of Energy collaboration, will fly to the far side of the Moon in early 2026 to conduct cosmological observations.

Mentioned as: U.S. Department of EnergyNarrative GeneralFeb 12, 2024Lunar science is entering a new active phase with commercial launches of landers

Zeno Power Systems is working with the U.S. Department of Energy to recycle decades-old radioactive material to produce radioisotope power sources.

Mentioned as: U.S. Department of EnergyOrg RelationshipJan 26, 2024Zeno to recycle decades-old radioactive material to fuel its radioisotope power systems

The Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge Office of Environmental Management (OREM) is working with Zeno Power Systems to recycle large quantities of strontium-90 from a radioisotope thermoelectric generator built in the mid-1980s at Oak Ridge National Laboratory that was never deployed.

Mentioned as: U.S. Department of EnergyOrg RelationshipJan 26, 2024Zeno to recycle decades-old radioactive material to fuel its radioisotope power systems

The Department of Energy aims to achieve a constant-rate production average of 1.5 kg of plutonium-238 per year by 2026.

Mentioned as: U.S. Department of EnergyOrg RelationshipNov 22, 2023NASA Advances Toward Using Plutonium-238 for Fueling Space Missions

The Perseverance rover carries some of the new plutonium-238 produced by the Department of Energy.

Mentioned as: U.S. Department of EnergyNarrative GeneralNov 22, 2023NASA Advances Toward Using Plutonium-238 for Fueling Space Missions

The U.S. Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory shipped 0.5 kg (a little over 0.4536 kg) of new heat source plutonium oxide to Los Alamos National Laboratory.

Mentioned as: U.S. Department of EnergyOrg RelationshipNov 22, 2023NASA Advances Toward Using Plutonium-238 for Fueling Space Missions

The Department of Energy produced the heat source plutonium oxide required to fuel the radioisotope power system for NASA’s Mars 2020 mission.

Mentioned as: U.S. Department of EnergyOrg RelationshipNov 22, 2023NASA Advances Toward Using Plutonium-238 for Fueling Space Missions

The JETSON reactor design draws heavily from the 2018 Kilopower Reactor Using Stirling Technology (KRUSTY) demonstration led by NASA and the Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration.

Mentioned as: U.S. Department of EnergyNarrative GeneralNov 16, 2023Lockheed Martin jets into nuclear electrical spacecraft power

The DOE must shift policy emphasis and funding priorities towards space-based solar power to achieve clean energy goals.

Mentioned as: DOETechnical ProductOct 9, 2023With a tweet, America has joined the race to develop astroelectricity—hopefully!

NASA’s Pandora mission, projected to launch in 2024 or 2025, uses a Saturn-class microsat and was designed by NASA and the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory to study the atmospheres of exoplanets.

Mentioned as: U.S. Department of EnergyNarrative GeneralOct 9, 2023New head of smallsat supplier Blue Canyon sets sights on defense market growth

Honeywell partnered with the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory on a year-long collaboration to prototype and support commercialization of a cartridge-based hydrogen fuel storage solution for uncrewed aerial vehicles.

Mentioned as: U.S. Department of EnergyOrg RelationshipSep 14, 2023Honeywell Partners with NREL on Hydrogen Fuel Storage

The U.S. Department of Energy will offer an additional $3,500,000,000 in financing to bolster domestic battery manufacturing for vehicles and the national power grid.

Mentioned as: U.S. Department of EnergyOrg RelationshipSep 1, 2023US Announces $12 Billion Funding Boost to Transform Auto Plants for EV

The funding package includes $10,000,000,000 in new funding from a U.S. Department of Energy loan program geared toward clean vehicles.

Mentioned as: U.S. Department of EnergyNarrative FinancialSep 1, 2023US Announces $12 Billion Funding Boost to Transform Auto Plants for EV

The second launch of the Bolt Rocket was conducted under the Responsive Development Experiment (ReDX) program for the Department of Energy's Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL).

Mentioned as: U.S. Department of EnergyNarrative GeneralJun 16, 2023X-Bow Systems Announces the Second Successful Launch of "Bolt" Rocket

In 2022, Westinghouse was awarded a joint NASA and Department of Energy contract to produce an initial design concept for a fission lunar surface power system.

Mentioned as: U.S. Department of EnergyOrg RelationshipJun 9, 2023Westinghouse and Astrobotic to collaborate on space technology

In 2024, Westinghouse was awarded a NASA/DOE contract to provide an initial design concept for a fission lunar surface power system.

Mentioned as: U.S. Department of EnergyOrg RelationshipJun 2, 2023Westinghouse and Astrobotic sign MoU to Power Outer Space

The Massachusetts Department of Energy Resources awarded NV5 Global a three-year, $5,000,000 contract to provide technical consulting services for the development of new residential, multifamily, and industrial energy efficiency programs.

Mentioned as: U.S. Department of EnergyOrg RelationshipMay 26, 2023NV5 Awarded $13 Million Clean Energy and Energy Efficiency Contracts
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