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NASA planetary missions use RPS fueled by plutonium-238, and the Department of Energy produces only enough plutonium-238 to support key NASA missions.
NASA is working with the U.S. Department of Energy to ensure it has sufficient plutonium-238 for missions projected to launch through the end of the decade.
NASA and the Department of Energy expect to reach the 1.5 kg-per-year plutonium-238 production goal in 2026.
Under NASA’s Fission Surface Power project, the Department of Energy awarded three commercial design efforts to develop nuclear power plant concepts for use on the lunar surface and potentially Mars.
The strategic forces subcommittee oversees missile defense, national security space, and Department of Energy nuclear weapons programs.
NASA has been working on nuclear thermal propulsion technologies through July 2021 awards made in cooperation with the Department of Energy to BWX Technologies, General Atomics, and Ultra Safe Nuclear Technologies.
The July 2021 NASA–DOE contracts to BWX Technologies, General Atomics, and Ultra Safe Nuclear Technologies were valued at $5,000,000 each for one year and covered NTP reactor design.
Descartes Labs was spun off from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Los Alamos National Laboratory in 2014.
McQ has been supplying the Department of Defense, Department of Homeland Security, Department of Energy, Department of Justice, and other U.S. government agencies and commercial customers with security and surveillance systems for over 35 years.
The U.S. Department of Energy provided the MMRTG to NASA through an ongoing partnership to develop power systems for civil space applications.
The executive order directs the Department of Energy to complete a three-year effort to develop technology for the production of high-assay low enriched uranium (HALEU).
The executive order directs NASA, the Department of Defense, the Department of Energy, and other agencies to collaborate on a common technology roadmap coordinating terrestrial-based advanced nuclear reactor and space-based nuclear power and propulsion efforts through 2030.
NASA has been working with the Department of Energy on the Kilopower project to develop surface nuclear reactors and has sought proposals to develop a reactor for use on the Moon.
NASA and the U.S. Department of Energy established a memorandum of understanding that was discussed during the Secretary of Energy Advisory Board meeting on 2020-10-20.
NASA and the Department of Energy established three working groups focused on lunar surface infrastructure, space nuclear power and propulsion, and science and innovation including space safety and planetary defense.
NASA–DOE collaboration provided the nuclear fuels that propelled Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 into interstellar space.
Jim Bridenstine and Dan Brouillette signed the memorandum of understanding between NASA and the Department of Energy on 2020-10-20.
The agreement creates an executive committee jointly chaired by NASA’s deputy administrator and the Department of Energy’s deputy secretary that will meet on a regular basis to implement the agreement.
NASA’s Mars 2020 mission includes a radioisotope thermoelectric generator power source using plutonium provided by the Department of Energy.
NASA and the Department of Energy signed a memorandum of understanding on 2020-10-20 to expand cooperation between the two agencies.