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Antares wins $161M from the Space Force to put fission back in orbit
The Strategic Breakthrough award pays for ground demonstrations of the R1-S design and a Mark-1 test campaign that starts in 2027, while Executive Order 14369 asks for nuclear reactors in space as early as 2028.
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