The company’s ambitious new Sunbird design aims to harness nuclear fusion in space, despite the fact that commercializing ...

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 nuclear ...

The future of interplanetary travel is looking brighter, thanks to the new Sunbird nuclear-powered rocket designed by Pulsar ...

A space commerce revolution could quickly break out. British company Pulsar Fusion has unveiled its ambitious project to ...

If the rocket ever becomes operational ... Nuclear fusion is different from nuclear fission, which is what powers current nuclear power plants. Fission works by splitting heavy, radioactive ...

Theoretically, Sunbird's tremendous speeds could cut mission times to Mars in half, from seven to eight months to about four.

Sunbird could help spacecrafts reach speeds up to 805,000 kms per hour, which is faster than the Parker Solar Probe, the ...

The concept of a nuclear-powered rocket is being studied for future missions Many astronauts dream of reaching Mars in a shorter and safer time. And that dream may not be so far off. With funding from ...

A British propulsion company is aiming to harness nuclear fusion and drastically cut travel times to far off places in space.

Nuclear fusion, the energy source of the Sun ... in space travel and future human missions The Sunbird and similar rocket-powered fusion missiles are not to be launched from Earth.

A British startup called Pulsar Fusion has come up with a wild new concept for a nuclear fusion-powered space rocket.