Project CERES: Nuclear Thermal Transportation and In-Situ Propellant Production A Foundational Architecture for Solar System Logistics

Project CERES proposes a reusable deep-space transportation architecture centered on the dwarf planet Ceres, combining nuclear thermal propulsion (NTP) with in-situ production of water, hydrogen, oxygen and ammonia. Its first flight, a Pathfinder that surveys Ceres and returns samples, also bears on