Fusion has long been the propulsion end-goal for interplanetary travel, and a U.K.-based company thinks on its way to ...

After ten years of quiet research, Pulsar Fusion has unveiled a nuclear fusion-powered rocket called the Sunbird. This spacecraft isn’t just another science fiction concept—it’s being designed to fly ...

At the forefront of this revolution is Pulsar Fusion, a UK-based company pushing the boundaries of science and engineering to create a new generation of rocket engines. The heart of this ...

UK startup Pulsar Fusion today unveiled “Sunbird,” a ... a Hall-effect electric thruster for spacecraft and a second-stage hybrid rocket engine. “Pulsar has built a reputation in this ...

Meanwhile, the design features of the Duel Direct Fusion Drive engines are not disclosed. They have not been properly tested either. A number of scientists, such as MIT professor of astronautics Paulo ...

The Sunbird concept is for the fusion-powered ‘tugs’ to be permanently based in space, able to dock with spacecraft and ...

Pulsar Fusion has introduced Sunbird, a nuclear fusion-powered rocket that could significantly cut space travel time.

UK's Pulsar Fusion reveals Sunbird, a nuclear fusion rocket promising to cut Mars travel time in half. Could this be the ...

Liquid-fuelled rocket engine design has largely followed a simple template since the development of the German V-2 rocket in the middle of World War 2. Propellant and oxidizer are mixed in a ...

A fusion rocket, for example ... which also develops plasma thrusters and is designed for more near-term fission engines as well, described the project to Live Science as one of “complete ...