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 ...
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 ...
A British aerospace company is building a nuclear fusion-based rocket engine that could exceed temperatures on the Sun. Pulsar Fusion, situated in Bletchley, England, state the technology that will be ...