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RocketStar tests fusion-enhanced in-space propulsion process
Startup Rocketstar creates electric propulsion for spacecraft enhanced with nuclear fusion
US-based startup RocketStar has successfully demonstrated an electric propulsion unit for spacecraft that uses nuclear fusion-enhanced pulsed plasma. The process has now been further validated during subsequent testing at the Georgia Institute of Technology’s High Power Electric Propulsion Laboratory (HPEPL) in Atlanta, USA. Adam Hecht, professor of nuclear engineering at the University of New Mexico said, “RocketStar has not just incrementally improved a propulsion system, but taken a leap forward by applying a novel concept, creating a fusion-fission reaction in the exhaust.
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