Announcing: $161M Strategic Breakthrough with the U.S Space Force In response to The White House EO Ensuring Space Superiority, and the National Initiative for Space Nuclear Power, Antares has been awarded a first-of-a-kind Strategic Breakthrough award to advance space nuclear power to flight.

This $161M contract allows us to invest substantial private capital alongside of the @USSpaceForce to rapidly advance the TRL of space nuclear power and propulsion systems. We will integrate our R1S space reactor design with a spacecraft, complete a ground test, and in addition, power an operational space force ground asset with the Mark-1 demo.

We started @AntaresNuclear with a vision to make energy abundant from earth to the asteroid belt. We always believed nuclear energy was a multi-domain problem. Our work with @USArmy and @usairforce on Janus and ANPI lay the groundwork, and now our space business has a vector to take off.

We believe space nuclear will be a much bigger market and move much faster than most people think. So we engineered to win the terrestrial and space market from the beginning. We are building a multi-product company because that’s what our military customers need.

Nuclear power in space is the horizontal enabler for 10x more onboard power, high-powered payloads, and a radically increased propulsion budget. This will enable a human presence and industrial activity on other celestial bodies. It will enabled orders of magnitude higher power in deep space - allowing us to melt the ice on Jupiter’s icy moons and search for extraterrestrial life. It will ultimately unlock a future $1T space economy with decades of growth, of which Antares will take a cut!

@WhiteHouse @AntaresNuclear We are witnessing this generation’s heroes actively contributing to shaping a brighter future for our children.

@WhiteHouse @AntaresNuclear LFG 🇺🇸🚀

@WhiteHouse @AntaresNuclear Dude nice!!! Congrats man!

@WhiteHouse @AntaresNuclear Incredible to see. Congrats Jordan and team!

@WhiteHouse @AntaresNuclear @AntaresNuclear to the moon, literally 🚀🌖🔥

@WhiteHouse @AntaresNuclear Outstanding. Congratulations!

@WhiteHouse @AntaresNuclear Congrats, this will help open up the solar system!

@WhiteHouse @AntaresNuclear Congrats!

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@WhiteHouse @AntaresNuclear Wow that’s epic

@WhiteHouse @AntaresNuclear I love breakthrough initiatives. The future should look like the future! 🫡🇺🇸

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@WhiteHouse @AntaresNuclear Based congrats!

@WhiteHouse @AntaresNuclear This is amazing. Congratulations, @jordanbramble! This will unlock a much broader ecosystem and allow far more of space’s potential to be realised. Great work! 🚀

@WhiteHouse @AntaresNuclear Massive congratulations, rooting for you guys. This is very much needed and fortunately the leadership is in place to enable your team to change the world!

@WhiteHouse @AntaresNuclear Congrats Jordan!

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@WhiteHouse @AntaresNuclear Holy shit, congratulations!

@WhiteHouse @AntaresNuclear Brilliant. I grew up reading Clarke and Heinlein dreaming of exactly this, great to see real funding finally behind space nuclear. Congrats to the Antares team.

@WhiteHouse @AntaresNuclear Congrats, Jordan. The interesting part is the qualification path from ground demonstration to a flight-ready space nuclear system. If that progression proves out, this could be one of the rare cases where disciplined testing makes an ambitious deep-tech timeline feel tangible.

@WhiteHouse @AntaresNuclear Wen nuclear saltwater rockets?

@WhiteHouse @AntaresNuclear Congratulations!

@WhiteHouse @AntaresNuclear Congratulations! Building abundant, reliable power from Earth to the asteroid belt is exactly the kind of ambitious vision we need. BIG win for Antares Nuclear — and American space superiority!

@WhiteHouse @AntaresNuclear Congratulations

@WhiteHouse @AntaresNuclear absolutely huge