SpaceNukes specializes in the design and fabrication of fission reactor power systems for use in outer space - for the Moon, Mars, and beyond.
Joined May 2020
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25 Oct 2025
CFO Tony Belletete handing out candy last night in front of SpaceNukes’ office in Los Alamos during Trick or Treat on Main Street! Thanks to all who came by - Happy Halloween!
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9 Oct 2025
We’ve partnered with Space Ocean for Deep Space Science! Our combined technologies could provide the ability to explore from the Moon to the Kuiper Belt, including the interrogation of ocean worlds (e.g., Europa, Enceladus) for signs of life. SpaceNukes.com/news for more.
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8 Aug 2025
In @NPR’s article, "NASA plans to put a nuclear reactor on the moon. Here's what that means," SpaceNukes' Patrick McClure gives important insights into the safety of bringing and housing a nuclear reactor on the moon. Read on SpaceNukes.com/news or npr.org.
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7 Aug 2025
Don’t miss the recording of the live interview with Andrew Craft (@livenowfox) and Patrick McClure of SpaceNukes about NASA’s announcement to put a nuclear reactor on the moon.
Head over to SpaceNukes.com/news, where you can click the link to watch the full clip!
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2 Jul 2025
In case you missed it, tune in to @NEI with Mary and Jordan on the podcast “Fissionary” and listen to Dr. David Poston talk about how nuclear is the right fuel source for long-duration space travel and settlement! 🚀 nei.org/news/2025/fissionary…
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15 May 2025
Exciting news! We’ve partnered with USSF Space Strategic Technology Institute at the University of Michigan to develop nuclear electric propulsion. To read the official press release, head over to SpaceNukes.com/news 🚀
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5 May 2025
We’re at NETS 2025! Come by and say hi (and pick up some merch that’s out of this world)! 🌎 🚀✨
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26 Jan 2025
Some highlights of SpaceNukes’ Andy Phelps (pictured speaking on the Lunar Economy Panel) and Patrick McClure at the Mar-A-Lago Nuclear Energy - Space & Defense Tech Investor Summit hosted by Balerion Space Ventures.
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14 Dec 2024
SpaceNukes shares ready for flight KiloPower technology at Balerion investor conference.
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4 Dec 2024
We have signed a strategic partnership with Ad Astra Rocket Company to advance high-power Nuclear Electric Propulsion (NEP) technology to
enable fast and reliable human and robotic missions to Mars and beyond. Head to SpaceNukes.com/news to read the full press release.
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8 Nov 2023
We’ve officially begun our work on JETSON! It’s so much fun designing a reactor that has a great chance of operating in space. Visit SpaceNukes.com/news to view the PDF announcement. Photo courtesy of LANL.
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8 Nov 2023
We're jetting off with nuclear electric power!
Our JETSON award from @AFResearchLab in partnership with @SpaceNukes and @BWXT will design a fission reactor that produces 4X the power of solar power spacecraft, helping us travel farther into deep space.
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8 Nov 2023
.@LockheedMartin recently won a contract to develop high-power nuclear power and propulsion technologies and spacecraft design. The @AFResearchLab awarded a JETSON study along with partners @SpaceNukes and @BWXT.
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17 Oct 2023
I have worked with these guys in the past and they are the best! Hope Impulse gets a chance to fly their hardware someday!
16 Oct 2023
Exciting news from SpaceNukes! We've teamed with Lockheed Martin Corporation and BWX Technologies for the Space Force/Air Force JETSON project. To read more about it, click on the pdf under the announcement at spacenukes.com/news
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16 Oct 2023
RT @Nuclearjunkie: Congrats SpaceNukes!
Note: these are the guys behind Kilopower, the ONLY advanced reactor that the US has built and ope…
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16 Oct 2023
Exciting news from SpaceNukes! We've teamed with Lockheed Martin Corporation and BWX Technologies for the Space Force/Air Force JETSON project. To read more about it, click on the pdf under the announcement at spacenukes.com/news
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12 May 2022
As #NETS22 wraps up today in Cleveland, we at ANS want to give a special thank you to our exhibitors for making the Nuclear and Emerging Technologies for Space conference possible! ans.org/meetings/nets2022/
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11 May 2022
Day 3 of NET-22 hosted by @ANS_org! If you didn’t get a chance to look at our posters in person next to our booth, you can head over to our Instagram to see closer images. 🚀 #spacenukes #nets2022
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10 May 2022
Day 2 of NETS-2022 (Nuclear and Emerging Technologies for Space) hosted by @ANS_org! Stop by our booth to grab some SpaceNukes pens, keychains, and mints. Also be sure to attend our different Technical Sessions today at 10:30AM, 1:30PM, and 4:00PMz
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9 May 2022
If you’re at the NETS conference this week, stop by our booth to say hi! Or be sure to listen in on our technical sessions today from 4-6PM on The Transition of KRUSTY to a 50-kWe Kilopower System & on May 11th at 10:30AM on Scaling Comparison of NEP to SEP for Cislunar Space.
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