AI is making spacecraft propulsion more efficient, and could even lead to nuclear-powered rockets

Every year, companies and space agencies launch hundreds of rockets into space—and that number is set to grow dramatically ...
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Pulsar Fusion wants to use nuclear fusion to make interstellar space travel a reality

Space propulsion company Pulsar Fusion has started construction on a large nuclear fusion chamber in England, as it races to become the first firm to fire a nuclear fusion-powered propulsion system in ...
Yahoo

Helicity Space raises $5M to unlock fusion propulsion – and fast travel in deep space

Helicity Space has closed a $5 million seed funding to accelerate development of a technology that could finally unlock fast, efficient travel in deep space. That technology is fusion propulsion, ...
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Fusion Rockets, Solar Sails, and the 13-Hour Challenge to Reach Sedna’s Ancient Frontier

“If we’re going to leave our solar system within a human lifetime, fusion propulsion is the technology to make it happen.” With these words from Pulsar Fusion’s CEO Richard Dinan, the race to Sedna a ...
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How Humanity Can Travel Incredibly Fast In Space Explored

Limitless Space Institute compares the travel time of spacecraft propelled by nuclear power to that of imaginative fusion ...
Digital Journal

Pulsar Fusion begins construction of nuclear fusion rocket engine

The design of the new propulsion chamber. Source - Pulsar Fusion The design of the new propulsion chamber. Source - Pulsar Fusion UK aerospace company Pulsar Fusion is assembling a nuclear fusion ...
Business Wire

Helicity Space Raises $5M Seed Round

PASADENA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Helicity Space, a commercial space company developing in-space propulsion and power technology based on fusion power, announces $5 million in seed round funding from ...
Futurism

Fusion Thruster Startup Anticipates “First Town on Mars”

Radiation detection company US Nuclear Corp is trying to woo NASA into signing a contract to develop a fusion-powered spacecraft propulsion system that could take future space travelers all the way to ...
New Atlas

New fusion rocket design could cut Mars trip to under 4 months

It seems too good to be true, but UK-based Pulsar Fusion has revealed its new Sunbird self-contained nuclear rocket tug that uses a fusion propulsion engine that could reduce a trip to Mars to under ...
NextBigFuture

Path to Megawatt Direct Drive Fusion Propulsion Has No Scientific Roadblocks

A Masters Thesis analyzed a mission to Saturn’s moon Titan using the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory Direct Drive Fusion system. The Direct Fusion Drive (DFD) is based on a D-3He fueled, ...
NextBigFuture

Near Term Pulsed Fusion Propulsion

The Limitless Space Institute had a report from its Interstellar Initiative Grant recipients. One of the presenters is from the University of Albama who are working on a sub-kilowatt system to ...