Infinity and beyond! At 500,000 miles an hour!

From here:

Fusion rocket designed to travel 500,000 mph is under construction (freethink.com)

“A British aerospace startup is working on a fusion rocket it says will slash the amount of time it takes astronauts to travel to Mars and beyond — allowing humans to explore places that are currently far out of reach.”

Wow!

A bullet travels at around 2,000 mph!

It’s under construction at the moment.

“Pulsar recently partnered with aerospace R&D company Princeton Satellite Systems (PSS) for a study that will use AI to model the behavior of hot plasma in a fusion rocket engine. It has also announced that it has begun constructing an eight-meter fusion reaction chamber in the UK. 

Its goal is to begin firing that chamber in 2025 and achieving fusion temperatures by 2027. The next step after that would be conducting a test firing in orbit — proving that a fusion rocket could potentially power the next era of space exploration.”

Fusion temperatures in 2027 using AI to help?

“Fusion occurs when two atoms merge. This releases a tremendous amount of energy, without generating harmful emissions — that’s long made harnessing nuclear fusion a holy grail of clean energy research.

By containing super hot plasma within electromagnetic fields, several groups have managed to trigger fusion reactions — briefly. The challenge now is figuring out how to sustain them.”

Presumably, braking from that speed would involve reversing the flow?

Here’s a whizxy cartoon:

Looks like someone is trying to AI rtificially inseminate space!

Onwards

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