{"id":151641,"date":"2022-12-01T21:27:56","date_gmt":"2022-12-02T03:27:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/12\/a-companys-nuclear-fusion-rockets-could-help-us-escape-the-solar-system-in-our-lifetime"},"modified":"2022-12-01T21:27:56","modified_gmt":"2022-12-02T03:27:56","slug":"a-companys-nuclear-fusion-rockets-could-help-us-escape-the-solar-system-in-our-lifetime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/12\/a-companys-nuclear-fusion-rockets-could-help-us-escape-the-solar-system-in-our-lifetime","title":{"rendered":"A company\u2019s nuclear fusion rockets could help us escape the Solar System in our lifetime"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/EIp60JwMLhI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The space firm has already built the most powerful electric propulsion engine in Europe.<\/p>\n<p>Nuclear fusion-powered rockets might be nearer than you think. UK rocket company Pulsar Fusion has been awarded funding from the UK Space Agency to help it develop \u201cintegrated nuclear fission-based power systems for electric propulsion\u201d, a press statement shared with IE via email reveals.<\/p>\n<p>They will collaborate with the Universities of Cambridge and Southampton, as well as Nuclear AMRC to make their vision of green rocket technology, in the form of fusion propulsion, a reality. Fusion \/ YouTube.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The space firm has already built the most powerful electric propulsion engine in Europe. Nuclear fusion-powered rockets might be nearer than you think. UK rocket company Pulsar Fusion has been awarded funding from the UK Space Agency to help it develop \u201cintegrated nuclear fission-based power systems for electric propulsion\u201d, a press statement shared with IE [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[873,1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-151641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nuclear-energy","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151641","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=151641"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151641\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=151641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}