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The launch of Sputnik prompted the formation of DARPA and NASA.
The DARPA program that involved Charles River Analytics ended in 2020, after which the company continued to develop the augmented and mixed reality tool into a commercial product named Kwyn Solar.
Blue Canyon Technologies won a Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency contract in 2018 to supply buses for the Blackjack technology demonstration in low Earth orbit.
The DARPA Blackjack contract with Blue Canyon Technologies included options to supply up to 20 buses.
DARPA will conduct an initial round of evaluation on proposals received by 5:00 p.m. Eastern time on 2023-10-01.
Two CACI optical terminals exchanged data in orbit as part of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency’s Mandrake experiment in 2022.
DARPA used CACI terminals on four Blackjack satellites that it recently launched to low Earth orbit.
Debra Facktor served as President and owner of AirLaunch LLC, which received DARPA funding for a small launch vehicle development project.
General Atomics was competitively awarded a contract in 2020 to develop DARPA’s LongShot concept for disruptive air combat operations.
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency launched the 10-Year Lunar Architecture project, called LunA-10, on 2023-08-15.
DARPA is soliciting three-page abstracts for LunA-10 that are due 2023-09-06.
DARPA plans to present an 80% product of the LunA-10 study at the April 2024 LSIC meeting.
DARPA plans to select a group of developers and users to work together on new integrated system-level lunar solutions that span multiple services and be commercially available by 2035.
DARPA plans to select participants for the LunA-10 study at the fall meeting of the Lunar Surface Innovation Consortium scheduled for 2023-10-10–11 in Pittsburgh.
Niki Werkheiser, director of technology maturation in NASA’s Space Technology Mission Directorate, is working directly with DARPA on planning for LunA-10 and providing NASA expertise in relevant technologies.
NASA and DARPA are evenly splitting the $499 million cost of the DRACO program.
Lockheed Martin won a contract from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to develop and demonstrate a nuclear-powered spacecraft under the Demonstration Rocket for Agile Cislunar Operations (DRACO) project.
NASA and DARPA selected Lockheed Martin to develop a spacecraft to demonstrate nuclear thermal propulsion technologies.
The in-space flight demonstration of a nuclear thermal rocket engine vehicle under DRACO will take place no later than 2027.
Lockheed Martin won a contract from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to develop and demonstrate a nuclear-powered spacecraft under the Demonstration Rocket for Agile Cislunar Operations (DRACO) project.