NextBigFuture

Pulsar Fusion Near Term Nuclear Electric and Other Propulsion

Pulsar Fusion, a propulsion startup based in England, announced last week it is partnering with the University of Michigan to research electric Hall-effect thruster tech. The UK Space Agency is ...
autoevolution

Pulsar Fusion Wants To Build the World's First Nuclear Fusion Rocket Engine, Is It Legit?

Earlier this year, NASA and DARPA announced the goal to field a nuclear fission-powered spacecraft capable of ferrying human crews from Earth to Mars expediently sometime before this decade is out. If ...
NextBigFuture

Pulsar Fusion Plans Orbital Fusion Tests by 2027

Pulsar Fusion will make a linear nuclear fusion rocket propulsion system. They will heat hydrogen plasma with microwaves to create fusion propulsion. They will perform laboratory tests next year and ...
The Next Web

This fusion-powered rocket could halve the time it takes to get to Mars

Interplanetary travel might be about to get a whole lot faster — and hotter. UK startup Pulsar Fusion today unveiled “Sunbird,” a nuclear fusion-powered rocket concept that could halve the time it ...
Houston Chronicle

UK’s Pulsar Fusion brings nuclear space propulsion research to Austin

Pulsar Fusion, a U.K.-based firm attempting to unlock nuclear fusion to power space travel, has picked Austin for its U.S. location. The company said Monday it’s searching for roughly 50,000 square ...