Nuclear-ready spaceport capabilities .
Nuclear-ready spaceport capabilities .
Space nuclear missions bring unique ground safety and other considerations to spaceport operations before spaceflight.
Rocinante works with governments, mission planners, and spaceport operators to ensure spaceports around the world have the infrastructure ready for nuclear launch campaigns.
Space nuclear missions bring unique ground safety and other considerations to spaceport operations before spaceflight.
Rocinante works with governments, mission planners, and spaceport operators to ensure spaceports around the world have the infrastructure ready for nuclear launch campaigns.
The spaceport bottleneck
A 2025 Idaho National Laboratory report found:
"the U.S. lacks a nuclear-capable launch processing facility for fission systems at Kennedy Space Center, Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, or any other major national launch site. This gap risks delaying any fielded reactor, regardless of technical readiness."
Radioisotope power systems, fission surface power, and nuclear propulsion all create unique demands that ordinary spaceport operations and payload processing may not be able to absorb. Launchworks exists to catalyze nuclear-ready spaceports before it becomes the bottleneck that stops missions.
