Lagrange Interplanetary Transport, founded 2073 alongside Hohmann Fleet Lines, operates cargo transit across the Earth-Luna-Mars network using open, license-free nuclear thermal propulsion. One founding engineer summarized the economic logic: “You cannot build a commercial shipping network on a reactor design three governments will let you use for one specific mission and no other. NTP is slower. NTP is also ours.”
The company’s choice of nuclear thermal propulsion over Kuzmin-class fusion — slower but unencumbered by the Kaluga Protocol’s licensing restrictions — represents the first documented instance of commercial space operators making architectural choices based on the political economy of propulsion access rather than purely technical optimization.