Company - Westinghouse
Product/Service
- Classification
- Space Utilities
- Category
- Resources - Energy
Nuclear Fission Power
- Fields
- Nuclear Power
Nuclear Fission Power
Moon
- Status
- Concept
- First launch
- Not announced
- Partners
- Aerojet Rocketdyne
Westinghouse and Astrobotic Team to Power Outer Space with eVinci™ Microreactor Technology
Air Force Research Lab awards design contracts for nuclear powered spacecraft, 2023-10-03.
Nuclear power on the moon: NASA wraps up 1st phase of ambitious reactor project, 2024-02-02.
- NASA next plans to extend Phase 1 contracts to refine the project's direction for Phase 2, which involves final reactor design for a lunar demonstration. Open solicitation for Phase 2 is expected to open in 2025.
- After Phase 2, the target date for delivering a reactor to the launch pad is in the early 2030s, NASA stated.
- The reactor plan is one of a number of new nuclear plans for space, including launching a nuclear-powered spacecraft, named DRACO, by early 2026.