In this week’s edition of The Prototype, we look at new advances in fusion power, how the new budget bill undermines clean ...

Unlike rockets that burn chemical fuel, Sunbirds would generate thrust using a Direct Fusion Drive (DDFD)—a system powered by fusing deuterium and helium-3, two hydrogen isotopes that could, in ...

New Sunbird rocket uses star-like fusion to propel spacecraft By Skye Jacobs April 7, 2025, 12:54 20 comments. ... typically hydrogen – under extreme temperatures and pressures.

British startup Pulsar Fusion has unveiled Sunbird, a space rocket concept designed to meet spacecraft in orbit, attach to them, and carry them to their destination at breakneck speed using ...

Sunbird’s nuclear rocket engine will use helium-3, a rare form of hydrogen, to fuel fusion reactions that produce energetic protons. These protons would shoot out of the back of the engine ...

They will heat hydrogen plasma with microwaves to create fusion propulsion. They will perform laboratory tests next year and in 2025 and then have an orbital test within three years. Pulsar recently ...

It seems too good to be true, but UK-based Pulsar Fusion has revealed its new Sunbird self-contained nuclear rocket tug that uses a fusion propulsion engine that could reduce a trip to Mars to ...

Over the past decade, Pulsar Fusion worked to design the rocket in secret. It was publicly unveiled at the Space-Comm Expo on March 11 and has continued to make waves since.

British startup Pulsar Fusion has unveiled Sunbird, a space rocket concept designed to meet spacecraft in orbit, attach to them, and carry them to their destination at breakneck speed using ...