{"id":167096,"date":"2023-07-07T20:25:38","date_gmt":"2023-07-08T01:25:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/07\/pulsar-fusion-wants-to-use-nuclear-fusion-to-make-interstellar-space-travel-a-reality"},"modified":"2023-07-07T20:25:38","modified_gmt":"2023-07-08T01:25:38","slug":"pulsar-fusion-wants-to-use-nuclear-fusion-to-make-interstellar-space-travel-a-reality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/07\/pulsar-fusion-wants-to-use-nuclear-fusion-to-make-interstellar-space-travel-a-reality","title":{"rendered":"Pulsar Fusion wants to use nuclear fusion to make interstellar space travel a reality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/pulsar-fusion-wants-to-use-nuclear-fusion-to-make-interstellar-space-travel-a-reality2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Space propulsion company <a href=\"https:\/\/pulsarfusion.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Pulsar Fusion<\/a> has started construction on a large nuclear fusion chamber in England, as it races to become the first firm to fire a nuclear fusion-powered propulsion system in space.<\/p>\n<p>Nuclear fusion propulsion tech, arguably a golden goose of the space industry, could reduce the travel time to Mars by half and cut the travel time to Titan, Saturn\u2019s moon, to two years instead of 10. It sounds like science fiction, but Pulsar CEO Richard Dinan told TechCrunch in a recent interview that fusion propulsion was \u201cinevitable.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou\u2019ve got to ask yourself, can humanity do fusion?\u201d he said. \u201cIf we can\u2019t, then all of this is irrelevant. If we can \u2014 and we can \u2014 then fusion propulsion is totally inevitable. It\u2019s irresistible to the human evolution of space. This is happening, because the application is irresistible.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Space propulsion company Pulsar Fusion has started construction on a large nuclear fusion chamber in England, as it races to become the first firm to fire a nuclear fusion-powered propulsion system in space. Nuclear fusion propulsion tech, arguably a golden goose of the space industry, could reduce the travel time to Mars by half and [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[873,1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-167096","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\/167096","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\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=167096"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167096\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}