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

UK startup Pulsar Fusion today unveiled “Sunbird,” a nuclear fusion-powered rocket concept that could halve the time it takes to travel across our solar system — and, maybe, beyond it.

After gaining an MSc in mathematics and physics from Durham University, Chapman completed a PhD at Imperial College London in fusion science, which he partly did at Culham Science Centre in ...