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Dark Fission Space Systems

Dark Fission Space Systems

航空航天组件制造业

Huntington Beach,California 1,587 位关注者

Enabling your journeys through cislunar space.

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Dark Fission Space Systems plans to develop and deploy the first commercially available nuclear thermal rocket (NTR) engine for applications in cislunar space and beyond.

网站
https://darkfission.space
所属行业
航空航天组件制造业
规模
1 人
总部
Huntington Beach,California
类型
私人持股
创立
2022

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    17712 Stanfield Circle

    US,California,Huntington Beach,92649

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  • Our CEO Fred Kennedy has some awfully good news. And it looks like we'll be needing a few good people to help us make history. It's time to go make nuclear thermal rockets a reality. Let us know if you're as excited as we are - drop us a line on [email protected].

    查看Fred Kennedy的档案

    Co-Founder and CEO @ Dark Fission Space Systems | Working towards an On Orbit Renaissance

    I'm very proud to report that Dark Fission Space Systems has received a $1.9M Direct to Phase II Small Business Innovative Research (SBIR) award from the Space Force as part of SpaceWERX's Sustained Space Maneuver Challenge. We're very excited to get this effort underway! We'll build and ground-test a subscale (non-nuclear) demonstrator of our DARKFORCE reactor and engine while investigating key components of our proposed orbital transfer vehicle (OTV). Anyone who's interested in helping us take our first steps to orbit a nuclear thermal rocket should contact us at [email protected]. We're going. ???? #spaceforce #spacewerx #cislunar

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  • Our CEO Fred Kennedy has some news on the patent front - our DARKFORCE nuclear thermal propulsion system, based on a HALEU-fueled particle bed reactor, is on the books. Next steps: Test (then fly) some of the key tech, as fast as we can. We want to get to orbit with a pathfinder as soon as possible, and are working through the details now to do just that.

    查看Fred Kennedy的档案

    Co-Founder and CEO @ Dark Fission Space Systems | Working towards an On Orbit Renaissance

    Very proud to have secured a patent for our DARKFORCE nuclear thermal rocket engine - compact, ultra lightweight, ultra-high performance, and safe to boot. This is the engine Dark Fission Space Systems will build to power spacecraft that will rapidly and efficiently cross cislunar and (once we do that) interplanetary space. 90 days to Mars - check. Fast lunar orbit and GEO access as cheap as LEO - check. More good news on the way - we've got a go on the contracts front but will wait until all the i's are dotted and t's crossed to say more. No desire to jinx it - especially in this wild environment. Stand by! ????

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  • Our CEO, Fred Kennedy, recently participated on a panel at Balerion Space Ventures's Nuclear Energy Space & Defense Tech Investor Summit. Excellent back and forth with Bhavya Lal and Stephane Lintner on fission and fusion propulsion. As you might imagine, we're bullish on fission; we've only been doing it for the past 82 years, and we've gotten pretty good at it. Time for the US to take it back to space and use it for the purposes it was intended for - fast transport in cislunar space (and beyond), high power applications (both on-orbit and on planetary/asteroidal/lunar surfaces), and more. The excitement was palpable; we're going to orbit! #nuclear #cislunar #spaceforce #nasa

    查看Fred Kennedy的档案

    Co-Founder and CEO @ Dark Fission Space Systems | Working towards an On Orbit Renaissance

    Okay, so despite the not-so-great news out of Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) that their DRACO effort's planned 2027 space demo is now on hold, I'm honestly feeling better than ever about the prospects for flying nuclear thermal rockets. Am I crazy? Well...maybe a bit. We just finished up a day of great talks and discussion at Mar A Lago in Palm Beach on private efforts to fly space nuclear tech hosted by Balerion Space Ventures - with more than a few luminaries (Thomas Mueller, Bhavya Lal, and Kam Ghaffarian) jumping into the fray. There's burgeoning interest in orbiting a variety of space nuclear propulsion and power systems (including nuke electric and nuke thermal rockets, Dark Fission Space Systems' signature technology) for multiple applications - and the distinct possibility that we can get the attention of Elon Musk's DOGE to drive the regulators into top gear. I think FAA, especially, will be receptive. Fielding nuclear propulsion and power is the only way we're going to level up the Space Force, NASA, and private sector space in an increasingly competitive domain - we need the orders-of-magnitude higher energy and power densities nuclear offers so we can move fast, deter enemies, mine and refine volatiles, power settlements - and we need it as soon as we can get it. Chemistry and photovoltaics just don't cut it. Thoroughly enjoyed hearing from Valar Atomics' CEO Isaiah Taylor on how we can achieve a little regulatory "competition" and encourage more innovation in all things nuclear.

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  • Our CEO, Fred Kennedy, posted some information about an upcoming event in Dallas - and if you're around, we'd very much like to see you there.

    查看Fred Kennedy的档案

    Co-Founder and CEO @ Dark Fission Space Systems | Working towards an On Orbit Renaissance

    Hi folks. We're going to be telling Dark Fission Space Systems' story at the Dallas Nuclear Energy Space & Defense Investor Summit, sponsored by Balerion Space Ventures on December 11, 2024. Hope to see some of you there. We've seen a lot of very positive news on the terrestrial nuclear front (e.g., Microsoft and Amazon jumping into the fray to meet the burgeoning demand for carbon-free power) and would suggest that we're on the cusp of a space nuclear renaissance that will truly change the game on orbit. This is a horses-to-autos level revolution - energy and power available at densities no solar or chemical narrative can match, and in compact, lightweight forms, thus eminently transportable and scalable. This is how we truly open up cislunar space (and then the rest of the solar system) to commerce. But make no mistake: This won't be easy, and it'll require committed players, people who get the vision and understand the risks. We're all in. ????

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  • Our CEO, Fred Kennedy, recently participated on a panel with representatives from several companies working to develop and deploy space nuclear power and propulsion systems on-orbit. His comments follow... ----- Thanks to Ron F. from General Atomics' Electromagnetics Division for inviting me to opine on the challenges and opportunities of space nuclear power and propulsion. As it turns out, we have quite a bit of both. Opportunities first. I've said it before but it's worth repeating: Elon and his superb team at SpaceX have dismantled the LEO bottleneck. And that has opened the door to innovations of every kind - at least in LEO. But what it's really done is enable us to envision how we will go to (and play in) higher orbits, offering us a chance to define what sort of infrastructure we will build the future space economy *on*. The future is not LEO - it's the entire solar system. So: It won't be chemistry or solar power that get us moving, not if we're serious about creating a gold rush to orbit. Both are too constrained and deficient (i.e., insufficiently energy- and power-dense) to rapidly and efficiently connect the dots in cislunar space, and provide the megawatts on demand we know we'll need, whether the use case is civil, commercial, or defense. That leaves us with nuclear - and it's going to be fission for awhile, despite noteworthy quantities of money flowing into fusion. We can make this work - but we have to get to orbit and prove ourselves now. If we don't? Well, sunk cost is very real (see SLS). If you have it, you use it - even if it doesn't make sense. Let's make sure that what we put on orbit makes sense - commercial sense, defense sense, civil sense. Challenges? Well, we're all capital-intensive plays with some uncertainty in our regulatory story and that combo tends to scare the ?? out of most private investors. I'd love to be introduced to any visionary folks out there with some discretionary dollars who share my passion for the space gold rush and want to find a way to get involved that gets us out and moving during our lifetimes - while we can have some fun. We can do this. ?? https://lnkd.in/ezq6yv_G

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