The LEU Tug is on-hold.
Angry Astronaut reports that Lockheed Martin and DARPA lost the 1960s test-facility. In fairness during the #Wokening, Lockheed were busy sketching up diversity_inclusion.html pages and following ESG. Although these terms are harder to find on the site today for some reason, doubtless the management's deeply-held Values.
Regulations have overtaken what America could do in the 1960s according to the Draco manager Schumacher. The HALEU "nerf" workaround for LEU still does not satisfy the post-1960s regulations mostly environmental.
So what is Draco actually... doing? The Angry Astronaut notes that NASA and DARPA both failed to prepare for the coming-online of a working NERVA prototype. That v'tuber is calling upon Elon Musk to fix these regulations.
As I've noted, SpaceX is all in the chemical-world, not nuclear. But with SpaceX's stuff, we absolutely need heavy-duty space tugs in the Earth's orbital ranges. We can only get this with NERVA. This can only increase demand for Starship.
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