The US Space Force first demonstrated this tactically responsive capability with a launch on Firefly's Alpha rocket in 2023. As part of this "Victus Nox" test flight, a satellite was encapsulated into ...

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

The Sunbird nuclear fusion rocket concept has the potential to more than halve the time to travel to Mars and cut travel time ...

A secretive UK-based startup has just pulled back the curtain on a futuristic space propulsion project that sounds like ...

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

Developed in complete secrecy by Pulsar’s in-house team, Sunbird to be presented at the Space-Comm EXPO on March 11th at ExCeL London Meet the Sunbird: a marvel of space propulsion innovation, powered ...

An incredible £50m nuclear fusion rocket developed by British scientists over the past decade has been unveiled for the very first time. Pulsar Fusion’s ‘Sunbird’ concept will halve the time it takes ...

The New Zealand (and New York)-based business says the new concept is designed for mass manufacture and specifically designed for large constellations of satellites. The move also reinforces Rocket ...

Space travel, once a concept confined to science fiction, has now become a reality that captures the imagination of millions.

UK startup Pulsar Fusion today unveiled “Sunbird,” a nuclear fusion-powered rocket concept that could halve ... but two of the largest space propulsion testing chambers in the UK, if not ...