British startup Pulsar Fusion has unveiled Sunbird, a space rocket concept designed to meet spacecraft in orbit, attach to ...

Artist impression of a nuclear fission powered rocket. Credit: General Atomics A new test of nuclear propellant fuel under space-like conditions has been hailed as a success by NASA and General ...

A team from the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory, joined by university students, recently traveled to The ...

offering the potential to power spacecraft at unprecedented speeds. Pulsar Fusion's ambitious goal is to construct the largest and most practical nuclear fusion rocket engine to date. Their 8 ...

The Sunbird concept is for the fusion-powered ‘tugs’ to be permanently based in space, able to dock with spacecraft and propel them at high speed over vast distances. Pulsar Fusion says it foresees a ...

UK startup Pulsar Fusion today unveiled “Sunbird,” a nuclear fusion-powered rocket concept that ... spacecraft and a second-stage hybrid rocket engine. “Pulsar has built a reputation in ...

Pulsar Fusion has a history of groundbreaking achievements in propulsion, including its 2023 UK Space Agency-funded work on integrated nuclear fission power systems for electric propulsion ...

Nuclear rockets are the future of space propulsion ... However, a new U.K.-based company is claiming that its fusion-powered rocket, called “sunbird” could be ready for space-based ...

However, a Martian spacecraft needs nuclear-powered rocket engines to develop great speed and this requires new developments and considerable financial costs, Mitrofanov said. Also, infrastructure ...

The Sunbird nuclear ... fusion engine providing both thrust and electrical power for spacecraft, including as much as 2 MW of power on arrival at a destination. The company says that unlike the large ...