{"id":167250,"date":"2023-07-10T10:24:11","date_gmt":"2023-07-10T15:24:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/07\/uk-space-firm-is-building-a-nuclear-fusion-rocket-engine-that-will-get-hotter-than-the-sun"},"modified":"2023-07-10T10:24:11","modified_gmt":"2023-07-10T15:24:11","slug":"uk-space-firm-is-building-a-nuclear-fusion-rocket-engine-that-will-get-hotter-than-the-sun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/07\/uk-space-firm-is-building-a-nuclear-fusion-rocket-engine-that-will-get-hotter-than-the-sun","title":{"rendered":"UK space firm is building a nuclear fusion rocket engine that will get hotter than the Sun"},"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>It will also reduce travel time to Saturn\u2019s moon Titan to just two years.<\/p>\n<p>Pulsar Fusion, a UK-based space firm, is building a nuclear fusion-based rocket engine that could exceed temperatures on the Sun. The construction of the largest-ever fusion rocket engine has begun, and its exhaust speeds could exceed 500,000 miles per hour.<\/p>\n<p>Nuclear fusion has long been proposed to answer our energy and climate change woes as it promises a cleaner power source. Inspired by the Sun, scientists have been working to build nuclear fusion reactors and have succeeded in generating record-high temperatures but not more energy than they have put in.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It will also reduce travel time to Saturn\u2019s moon Titan to just two years. Pulsar Fusion, a UK-based space firm, is building a nuclear fusion-based rocket engine that could exceed temperatures on the Sun. The construction of the largest-ever fusion rocket engine has begun, and its exhaust speeds could exceed 500,000 miles per hour. Nuclear [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[493,873,1514,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-167250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climatology","category-nuclear-energy","category-space-travel","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167250","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=167250"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167250\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}