The Nuclear Fusion Rocket Is Coming!

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  • @TheSpaceRaceYT
    @TheSpaceRaceYT  ปีที่แล้ว +8

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    • @SavyaVerma-g1x
      @SavyaVerma-g1x ปีที่แล้ว +1

      The Space Race, Which Country/Territory & Nationality/Denonym Are You?

    • @ncdave4life
      @ncdave4life ปีที่แล้ว

      "Deluge" is supposed to be pronounced DELL'yüj, not duhLÜJ'.

  • @filonin2
    @filonin2 ปีที่แล้ว +171

    I want to point out that ISP is a rating of how efficient an engine is and a HIGHER number is more efficient, not less. So it is 1/3 as efficient as Space X's Raptor. Your numbers seem wrong and they entirely undermine the point you are trying to make.

    • @filonin2
      @filonin2 ปีที่แล้ว +49

      Yeah, I checked their wikipedia and you meant to say 10,000 seconds for the ISP. Not 105 seconds. That would be worse performance than any rocket, ever.

    • @lanata64
      @lanata64 ปีที่แล้ว +36

      yeah kinda shows how this guy doesn't really know much. i wish there were less unknowledgeable elon fanboys on yt

    • @JoshKaufmanstuff
      @JoshKaufmanstuff ปีที่แล้ว +23

      Yeah, he makes nice videos, but he often makes ridiculous mistakes like this

    • @lordgarion514
      @lordgarion514 ปีที่แล้ว +19

      Sadly, proofreading and checking your work started going out the window about 5 minutes after the internet showed up.

    • @millinoid2151
      @millinoid2151 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      @@filonin2it actually says 105s directly on their website… they’re missing a couple zeroes on it, maybe a typo? Lol
      “The Direct Fusion Drive is a revolutionary steady state fusion propulsion concept, based on a compact fusion reactor. It will provide power of the order of units of MW, providing both thrust of the order of 10−101N with specific impulses between 103− 105s and auxiliary power to the space system.”

  • @anarchofuturist3976
    @anarchofuturist3976 ปีที่แล้ว +71

    105 seconds? that would be much lower isp. existing nuclear thermal engines are in the ballpark of 1000 seconds

    • @magnetospin
      @magnetospin ปีที่แล้ว +16

      I assume he meant 105,000 seconds otherwise it wouldn't make any sense.

    • @grandeelfa
      @grandeelfa ปีที่แล้ว +5

      should be around 11,000 seconds

    • @CountryLifestyle2023
      @CountryLifestyle2023 ปีที่แล้ว

      Well I mean we don't rly have nuclear thermal engines yet, just prototypes. Would love to see nuclear fission or Fusion rockets in space though.
      Truly think it's the future of space travel

    • @alienblade2005
      @alienblade2005 ปีที่แล้ว

      There was a typo on their website and it's meant to be 10^5 seconds

    • @alienblade2005
      @alienblade2005 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      ​@@magnetospinMeant to say 10^5 so 100,000

  • @geraldimhof2875
    @geraldimhof2875 ปีที่แล้ว +35

    TLDR: Higher Isp = higher exhaust velocity = higher efficiency.
    Isp is not in seconds because it measures how fast an engine is. It's in seconds because It's inversely proportional to the speed of fuel consumption. A higher Isp means slower fuel consumption, not a slower engine.
    However, it is directly proportional to exhaust velocity, which in turn gives you the engine's thrust capability.

    • @bozhijak
      @bozhijak 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      1 kg of thrust from 1kg of fuel for x amount of time (sec).

    • @bozhijak
      @bozhijak 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Also this would have to be used only in space.

  • @fakeaccount401
    @fakeaccount401 ปีที่แล้ว +24

    LLNL's fusion is exactly a microscale H-bomb with lasers for first stage (instead of A-bomb). With proper power source for lasers (read, another reactor) you could build a 1950s-style nuclear pulse engine out of it. That's, probably, all.

  • @g.f.martianshipyards9328
    @g.f.martianshipyards9328 ปีที่แล้ว +24

    Ahem, you should doublecheck that ISP number for the DFD.

    • @whacked00
      @whacked00 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Higher Isp is more efficient. 105 sec is REALLY poor performance. This type of engine should have an Isp in the thousands of seconds.

    • @dr.testing3482
      @dr.testing3482 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      ☝🤓

  • @casienwhey
    @casienwhey 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Once fusion reactors are perfected, human travel to other planets will become more realistic. 100 years from now humans will look at current rocket technologies with liquid propellants, like we would look at a wind sail for an ocean ship.

  • @s3cunit
    @s3cunit ปีที่แล้ว +13

    Even that LLNL "break even" isn't really accurate. It didn't create more energy than the gross of what the entire process took, only what the laser injected. If you factor in the energy required for all the ancillary requirements, like magnetic containment, things like induction and heat losses, it was something like 20-fold short. So, we're still a loooooong way away from viable fusion.

    • @kristinehansen.
      @kristinehansen. ปีที่แล้ว +1

      We don't need to make more energy than in for use in a spaceship

    • @stupidburp
      @stupidburp ปีที่แล้ว

      Fission is fine for near future nuclear spacecraft. It will last decades without a refueling and the propellant will run out far sooner anyways. Even with numerous propellant refills the reactor will keep going for a reasonable length of time suitable for space station use, not just a single trip to Mars and back.

  • @DavidJancan
    @DavidJancan ปีที่แล้ว +9

    You said 105 ISP for a fusion think again you may have wanted to say 105K as theoretical ISP of fusion engine is 135,000 seconds

  • @folk.
    @folk. ปีที่แล้ว +10

    1G acceleration would be ideal. Then there would be no difference in "gravity" onboard the spaceship. Half way to destination and the ship breaks with 1G.

    • @LisaAnn777
      @LisaAnn777 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      How long would it take at that acceleration?

    • @folk.
      @folk. ปีที่แล้ว +5

      ​@@LisaAnn777 2 days to Mars, 16 days to Neptun. Acceleration 1G to half way, and 1G deceleration the rest of the distance

    • @button4boy
      @button4boy ปีที่แล้ว

      Just like in The Expanse!

    • @swiftmatic
      @swiftmatic 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@folk. 2 days with Mars at closest approach. 3.5 days at normal opposition

  • @stuartnetherclift7566
    @stuartnetherclift7566 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    ISP is a measure of performance - higher is better. So 105 seconds is terrible - is this right? It says this on the Pulsar web site too...

  • @timrobinson513
    @timrobinson513 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    Ar you sure those ISP numbers are right?

    • @filonin2
      @filonin2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      That's what I said. 105 seconds ISP would be worse than any rocket, ever. He doesn't seem to realize bigger numbers are more efficient with ISP.

    • @timrobinson513
      @timrobinson513 ปีที่แล้ว

      @filonin2 yea, I think he got them the wrong way around? Also, the Angry astronaut Chanel did video on this not long ago, too. Slightly more in-depth.

    • @rogeriopenna9014
      @rogeriopenna9014 ปีที่แล้ว

      ISP is exhaust velocity in meters per second divided by Earth's gravity acceleration... Which you can round up to 10.
      At 110 to 300 km per second exhaust speeds from their site, that is 110 to 300 thousand meters per second. Divided by 10...
      About 10 to 30 thousand ISP

  • @dollin9515
    @dollin9515 ปีที่แล้ว +31

    I cant express how giddy it makes me that there's any advancements in fusion. I'm not hopeful that it will become viable in my lifetime as an energy source but I hope my generation can lay out the path for the future to use it to it's fullest capacity.

    • @ctuna2011
      @ctuna2011 ปีที่แล้ว

      Are you in your 20's?

    • @dollin9515
      @dollin9515 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@ctuna2011 almost 21

    • @harvirdhindsa3244
      @harvirdhindsa3244 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@dollin9515you will live to see it

    • @protorhinocerator142
      @protorhinocerator142 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      You mean advancements in fusion, right?

    • @Imagine_Beyond
      @Imagine_Beyond ปีที่แล้ว

      @dollin9515 Fusion is very different from fission.

  • @vec306
    @vec306 ปีที่แล้ว +107

    Just another 30 years for Fusion to work.😂😂😂😂😂😂

    • @javierderivero9299
      @javierderivero9299 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      The problem is that fusion works...but you need energy for input and you get less as an output....but that is not a problem in a rocket...is only a problem when you build a nuclear plant

    • @moss_fetttt
      @moss_fetttt ปีที่แล้ว +20

      fusion works, just not net positive. Works fine for a rocket.

    • @n.g.s1mple29
      @n.g.s1mple29 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      This joke is old, give it a rest

    • @_starfiend
      @_starfiend ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Fusion is already possible here on Earth has been for a great number of years, what's not yet possible is getting more power out than is used to start the 'reaction'.

    • @jmcclain8237
      @jmcclain8237 ปีที่แล้ว

      I'm not sure what your point is.

  • @mathiaslist6705
    @mathiaslist6705 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Sorry, but an Isp of 105 seconds must be an error for the proposed engine.The pulsarfusion site quotes an exhaust velocity of 110 to 350 km/s which corresponds to an Isp of about 11 000 to 35 000 seconds.

  • @billthecat7536
    @billthecat7536 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    The OLM and the booster don't sit on the concrete pad. They sit on the load bearing pilings buried deep in the ground. And all those NEW underground piles for added support were poured over a month ago, so they're already at 85-90% of design strength. Relax. ;-)

    • @sydrivers8311
      @sydrivers8311 ปีที่แล้ว

      Ya this clown doesn’t know what he is talking about. The same one said he doubted when Elon said things be back up and running in a few months. He is an idiot!

    • @ralphsmith7696
      @ralphsmith7696 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I am sure the two are not even connected. The expansion would be catastrophic.

  • @lodewijkwolff
    @lodewijkwolff ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Raising velocity in order to reduce the time required to reach e.g. Mars sounds wonderful! However, once you reach your destination, you will also need to reduce your velocity in order to land. Does this mean nothing more than that it will actually take twice as long to reach your destination?

  • @charleshartig3247
    @charleshartig3247 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    Ad Astra - The VASIMR® Engine; already certified by NASA. Next step: Put it up there!

    • @spacesterzone
      @spacesterzone ปีที่แล้ว +1

      yup

    • @rogeriopenna9014
      @rogeriopenna9014 ปีที่แล้ว

      You don't know what you are talking about.
      It's a shitty engine. You were fooled by the 39 days to Mars headlines.
      You would need 200 MW of power for that
      200 MW generated by an ultra light weight reactor that is science fiction.
      The fusion reactor they talk about in this video wouldn't be capable of generating that amount of power and if you did get several of those together, it would weigh so much it wouldn't get to Mars in 6 months, much less 39 days.

  • @johnhopkins6260
    @johnhopkins6260 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Proposal: propulsion system that can, to a calculated distance between Mars and Earth, that can maintain an acceleration rate of 1G; At the aforementioned point, turn around and decelerate at a rate of 1G... reducing/minimizing the human physiological impact on extended zero-G environment.

  • @floydbertagnolli944
    @floydbertagnolli944 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Another in a series of my favorite videos you have produced. 😊

  • @Alexandr_Lee
    @Alexandr_Lee ปีที่แล้ว +17

    Russia has been working on the project of a nuclear tug "Zeus" for many years - a spacecraft with a nuclear reactor. Its first version is to fly on ion thrusters, very large ones. They are ready and tested. And the next version of the tug can be equipped with rotary magneto-plasma engines. In general, it is very similar to what you are talking about in this video. Russia has been working on this technology for several years. The first flight of the tug is scheduled for 2030. First he will go to Venus, drop one probe there. Then a gravitational maneuver and flight to Jupiter, more precisely, to its moons.
    In the future, I would like to see a collaboration between Russia and the United States (because when will all this enmity end?). Future, more powerful versions of the nuclear tug could work in conjunction with Starship. Starship can put a large payload into orbit. And Zeus can deliver it to the Moon or Mars. Not very fast, but very very cheap.

    • @CountryLifestyle2023
      @CountryLifestyle2023 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Is my understanding correct, it's more of a space ship with a nuclear reactor on it, to power ion engines? So technically wouldn't be a nuclear rocket but an ion rocket powered by nuclear reactor?
      Genuinely asking and curious

    • @Alexandr_Lee
      @Alexandr_Lee ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@CountryLifestyle2023 Well, it won't be a rocket, the nuclear tug will be launched into orbit by the Angara-A5 heavy launch vehicle. You can search for "nuclear tug Zeus" and see what it looks like. But in general, yes, it will not have a nuclear engine, only a nuclear reactor with an electric generator that will power either ion or magneto-plasma engines, which are much more efficient than classic ion ones. And it was the idea of these magnetoplasma engines, apparently, that was taken by this British startup. Because earlier Roskosmos has already stated that it is working on this technology. Well, let's see who does better =)

    • @CountryLifestyle2023
      @CountryLifestyle2023 ปีที่แล้ว

      @Alexandr_Lee So more of a transport vehicle in space, can't take off but once in space can move things around.
      Any development with nuclear via fission, Fusion or other variations in space is rly important and look forward to seeing them.
      Magneto plasma engines are not a new idea or new thing. The idea has been around since 1970s, in the USA, and multiple companies are trying to achieve it atm. So the British didn't steal the idea from Russia. It was already a concept since before Russia existed lol 😆
      I would put my money on SpaceX, I know they are not doing the same thing, but by 2030 they could be sending first human missions to Mars... lol

    • @Alexandr_Lee
      @Alexandr_Lee ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@CountryLifestyle2023 Sorry, I'm writing through an online translator. Apparently, I didn't express myself correctly. I meant that the British are in this race because the Russians are already doing it. And if we are doing this, then apparently it is already technically possible =)

    • @CountryLifestyle2023
      @CountryLifestyle2023 ปีที่แล้ว

      @Alexandr_Lee All good, I assume things get lost in translation.
      I just mean, UK isn't doing it because Russia is. USA started it before Russia did, but no one assumes Russia is doing it to copy USA.
      It's just the next phase in space travel that companies and nations are developing. Something that has been in the making for decades but only possible now.
      I think it's likely a Roskosmo "propaganda" moment, saying that UK is copying them. 🤔 just my opinion, I could be wrong.
      I did look up the Nuclear space Tug and it looks very interesting. Can't wait to see it in action.

  • @richardscott5529
    @richardscott5529 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Fantastic presentation 😊Bang On.😊

    • @RazorsharpLT
      @RazorsharpLT 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      'No, it's pretty horrible, actually
      We're not even close to Fusion technology.

  • @RussTillling
    @RussTillling ปีที่แล้ว +1

    How much does the Booster weigh, and does it weigh more when it is pressurized to stop the domes crumpling?

  • @lgonzalez1154
    @lgonzalez1154 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    They are almost ready to start testing! Exciting times!

  • @scottpugmire5449
    @scottpugmire5449 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Please check your ISP specs.

  • @aleksanderkuncwicz7277
    @aleksanderkuncwicz7277 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I hope more people in our life time could visit outher planets,lots of wealth and land in Space.

    • @lazarusblackwell6988
      @lazarusblackwell6988 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Lots is a serious understatement. There is inifinite resources out there in space.

  • @knightlykin1499
    @knightlykin1499 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Pretty amazing. I think this is the next level of space exploration. Chemical rockets are just not efficient enough except for low orbit missions. Chemical propellants take months or years to reach our desired destination and that's just within the solar system. Nuclear fusion propulsion is going to possibly allow us to travel as fast as 1,000,000 kmh (500,000 mph). We could get to Mars in 3 days.

  • @richardbailey3343
    @richardbailey3343 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Well its about time somebody figured out a reliable sustainable propulsion unit im sure space x would like a batch of these inits😮😅😅😅

  • @1winlock
    @1winlock ปีที่แล้ว +2

    We have beed chasing the fusion carrot on a stick for 50+ years. It is likely that it will take another 50+ years to get it practical and economic.

    • @pakviroti3616
      @pakviroti3616 ปีที่แล้ว

      LONGER. Fusion is 25 years away and always will be.

    • @davidlang4442
      @davidlang4442 ปีที่แล้ว

      This fusion thing will never happen. It's a jobs and career funding program...sort of like the cure for cancer...

  • @Fswoop1
    @Fswoop1 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    I seem to have missed where they magically have the energy required to create the magnetic field and plasma.

    • @arthurmario5996
      @arthurmario5996 ปีที่แล้ว

      umm, I think they said the "magic" is fusion. The magnetic field could be made by the same electrical generation system used for power the life support, etc.
      For example, the Waste heat from the drive could magically power a rankine or closed brayton cycle turbo-generator.
      last i checked, most fusion reactors use super-conducting magnets and only need power for the cryo-coolers.

    • @davidbrisbane7206
      @davidbrisbane7206 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Simple ... Another fusion reactor 😂🤣😂🤣

  • @songhan1586
    @songhan1586 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    nuclear fusion rocket is like putting the cart before the horse. Get a fusion powerplant online first, then you can begin research fusion rockets. Everything is pointless until then.

  • @Waseem_Amin
    @Waseem_Amin หลายเดือนก่อน

    yeah but how do you get the ipo in the nuklese of the 510 of the retasment to be 50% of draw on ligadtry ?

  • @syntaxed2
    @syntaxed2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Nuclear fusion?! Bro, I ate a bad pizza last night and the nuclear fusion diarrea assblast was beyond imagination!!!!

  • @rowshambow
    @rowshambow ปีที่แล้ว

    I'm seeing a few different ones mentioned in videos. NTP and NEP engines, FFRE, this one.
    Are they all the same? Or just different flavors of coke?

  • @215father
    @215father ปีที่แล้ว

    So how long do it take to slow down,or stop when you get to your destination.does it take years aerobraking.

  • @starfyre1003
    @starfyre1003 ปีที่แล้ว +85

    You are currently reading this sentence.

    • @JohnSuave
      @JohnSuave ปีที่แล้ว +10

      Untrue. I am, in fact, currently typing THIS sentence.

    • @windempireweimperikaspirin2965
      @windempireweimperikaspirin2965 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      This is an example of quantum superpositon. It only exist when someone reads it.

    • @davebooth5608
      @davebooth5608 ปีที่แล้ว

      I thought this was a hoax, you know, like UAP/UFO Hearings

    • @pulkitmittal9872
      @pulkitmittal9872 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Facts

    • @BrassJames
      @BrassJames ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Accurate

  • @raedwulf61
    @raedwulf61 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    If the USA didn't spend its treasure on imperial wars, we could be on Titan by now.

  • @Azzty45
    @Azzty45 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Good luck

  • @zarb88
    @zarb88 หลายเดือนก่อน

    the amount of things that could go wrong with that including shielding for the crew are astronomical

  • @MickGough1957
    @MickGough1957 ปีที่แล้ว

    Fusion! That is for the far future when fusion is actually delivered and affordable. Thermal nuclear-using fission is deliverable in the near future and is far cheaper. Go for something that works rather than provides constant funding streams. And fusion does that in spades. 70 plus years and it is still "just around the corner".

  • @australianpenguins6266
    @australianpenguins6266 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    we are living in some exciting times for sure

  • @jazzdub4958
    @jazzdub4958 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    UK based rocket, it will blow up then.

  • @luthermcgee3767
    @luthermcgee3767 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Excellent video. Marvelously done.

  • @ApteraEV2024
    @ApteraEV2024 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    4:20 then dont send a rocket! Send the Station!❤😅

  • @chadleach6009
    @chadleach6009 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    will be ready in 30 years 30 years from now with a possible delay or two or more of 30,60 or 90 years.

  • @web_physics
    @web_physics 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Hi there you have said lot's of idea together for Mars manned mission but that didn't include how re-entry mission will accomplish,how astronaut's breath ,how breath,how communicate 😮😊😢😮 I think ai and robotics can help to solve that.

  • @harvirdhindsa3244
    @harvirdhindsa3244 ปีที่แล้ว

    The team at Livermore worked with inertial confinement based fusion, while something like the ITER is a magnetic confinement based reactor. You say how the Pulsar team is working off of Livermore research. Does that mean the underlying principle of the Pulsar rocket is inertial confinement and those coils in the rocket are just meant to help with directing the flow? Trying to make sure I have this understanding right.

    • @Troeltsch7873
      @Troeltsch7873 ปีที่แล้ว

      Yes. I wouldn't know which it is from the video either but a strong guess is that this has got to be a magnetic confinement based reactor.

  • @jesselomas8626
    @jesselomas8626 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    On fusion drive - a little confusion over fusion reactors for power generation AND for a fusion drive.

  • @craigsinnott296
    @craigsinnott296 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Spacex will have Warp Speed before NASA test nuclear 🤣😂

  • @Juan-ll6sf
    @Juan-ll6sf ปีที่แล้ว +1

    We have to solve the problem of finding artificial gravity before thinking about nuclear fusion propulsion rockets. Thanks

    • @vidyaishaya4839
      @vidyaishaya4839 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      What's wrong with rotating cylinders? It works just as well.

    • @sirxarounthefrenchy7773
      @sirxarounthefrenchy7773 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Thrust gravity exists as well

  • @jasons44
    @jasons44 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I love the search for new space propulsion, i welcome the British/ e.u friends

  • @rogeriopenna9014
    @rogeriopenna9014 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    The ISP is actually between 10 and 30 THOUSAND seconds

  • @ApteraEV2024
    @ApteraEV2024 ปีที่แล้ว

    11:40 i gots u Essay, 4 realZ!❤😅

  • @ngamashaka4894
    @ngamashaka4894 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    I thought it was serious till I heard fussion......

  • @JosephDent-qd9ih
    @JosephDent-qd9ih ปีที่แล้ว

    Quicker easy and clean with great sanitation!

  • @jtit2025
    @jtit2025 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    This rocket has been coming for 50 years lllol

  • @firewalkerjon
    @firewalkerjon ปีที่แล้ว +4

    At last, a science feature narrated by a human, not an AI voice. Thank you for that and for great content.

  • @charlesjohnston1506
    @charlesjohnston1506 ปีที่แล้ว

    Another great video!! Thanks!

  • @zrakonthekrakon494
    @zrakonthekrakon494 ปีที่แล้ว

    Get started now because fusion propulsion will be absolutely paramount to interstellar travel, ion engines will take 100’s of years to reach the nearest star it’s simply not viable. If we can’t get a fusion or nuclear engine working we will likely never leave the solar system for the next 300-500 years.

  • @protorhinocerator142
    @protorhinocerator142 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    As with anything fusion, I'll believe it when I see it.

    • @SavyaVerma-g1x
      @SavyaVerma-g1x ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Russia & Belarus Are Very Strict!

  • @TayyabHussain-xk6gn
    @TayyabHussain-xk6gn ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Amazing🎉

  • @WildmanTrading
    @WildmanTrading ปีที่แล้ว

    Going from earth to mars in 12 days may cause a few time dilation issues. Now with a Alcubierre drive we won't need to worry about that. If course the most energy efficient version that I know of uses 3 solar masses. However this is tiny compared to the original dozen observable universes.

  • @nightlightabcd
    @nightlightabcd ปีที่แล้ว +10

    Fusion is the energy of the future, and always will be! Videos in 2033 will be talking about how great fusion will be!

    • @CountryLifestyle2023
      @CountryLifestyle2023 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      In 2033 Fusion will be rdy in 20 years !
      All jokes aside, it might be easier to do these types of Fusion rocket reactors than the traditional types of Fusion reactors we are building on Earth. Power generating vs thrust is very different

    • @alienblade2005
      @alienblade2005 ปีที่แล้ว

      Fusion propulsion is a lot easier than fusion energy since you don't actually need to hit and sustain ignition. It's just a way to convert electricity and propellant to thrust

    • @CountryLifestyle2023
      @CountryLifestyle2023 ปีที่แล้ว

      @alienblade2005 he was joking around
      The common joke is , Fusion will be rdy in 20 years! 20 years later, Fusion will be rdy in 20 years

  • @KariemMajeed-qr4cb
    @KariemMajeed-qr4cb 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    All you got to do is come out with a proposal system boost controller

  • @jameswilson4732
    @jameswilson4732 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    We should have had this technology in the 80s

  • @Moist_yet_Crispy
    @Moist_yet_Crispy 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Rad video!

  • @jameswarren423
    @jameswarren423 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I’ll believe it when I see it 😵‍💫

  • @SpockBorg5
    @SpockBorg5 ปีที่แล้ว

    Wouldn't it be easier to develop a nerva type propulsion system first?

    • @ToshisanMotonaka
      @ToshisanMotonaka ปีที่แล้ว

      Think about it real quick, if it was easy, it would have been done 30 years ago.

  • @levyroth
    @levyroth ปีที่แล้ว +1

    This is a nacelle. It means we're going to meet Vulcans soon.

  • @svarodzic
    @svarodzic ปีที่แล้ว +2

    How did we go from Nuclear Fusion Rocket to SpaceX Starship?! 🤷‍♂

    • @ngamashaka4894
      @ngamashaka4894 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Space ?

    • @LisaAnn777
      @LisaAnn777 ปีที่แล้ว

      What do you mean? We never had a fusion rocket I thought?

    • @ngamashaka4894
      @ngamashaka4894 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@LisaAnn777 Well we are always 30 years from getting fusion you know. As long as I remember and I'm old believe me we are always been 30 years away...:)

  • @Mortacxo
    @Mortacxo ปีที่แล้ว

    not sure how they think they will be able to deflect space debris / rocks floating in space with that speed, you need more technologies to protect the ship first

  • @SavyaVerma-g1x
    @SavyaVerma-g1x ปีที่แล้ว +2

    BY 2030, HUMANS CAN ENJOYLY TRAVEL TO MULTIVERSE, INFINITY, TRANSINFINITY, ALPHAINFINITY & BEYOND THE UNIVERSE BY 2030!

  • @TheNavalAviator
    @TheNavalAviator หลายเดือนก่อน

    5:46 Ever heard of a vacuum chamber?

  • @tkirby
    @tkirby ปีที่แล้ว +1

    "There really won't be any way to telling if this system will work until we get it into space and turn it on"
    Ah, no. there are plenty of ways of telling. Fusion is no where near breakeven when you factor in all the energy needed for containment and cooling. Where is all the waste heat from this going to go in space?
    This is hucksterism at it's finest.

  • @marcel1152
    @marcel1152 ปีที่แล้ว

    Good to see more players in the fusion field. But this will talk pretty long - they barly get it work on earth so space will be mutch more difficult.

  • @maximusprime9441
    @maximusprime9441 ปีที่แล้ว

    The biggest issue is these engines are not built/tested off world. Also our ships are still to small.
    ET vessels are 1/4mile or more in size. What we see withing atmosphere are lighter lander type craft.

  • @Quinn37
    @Quinn37 ปีที่แล้ว

    Gonna need warp speed to go anywhere humans can live

  • @deemcclanahan
    @deemcclanahan ปีที่แล้ว

    I wouldn't want to live next to the huge magnetic field that would be required to contain the plasma.
    Also, wouldn't the gas that is used as the propulsion get used up?

  • @danoyze8213
    @danoyze8213 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    So how will it slow down

    • @moss_fetttt
      @moss_fetttt ปีที่แล้ว +1

      likely turning the other direction and burning to lose velocity, like most rockets do

    • @filonin2
      @filonin2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      It would turn around and thrust the opposite direction, like all rockets do.

    • @twopointforex7670
      @twopointforex7670 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Rocket will spin around and re-ignite engines, like how every rocket has ever done

    • @LisaAnn777
      @LisaAnn777 ปีที่แล้ว

      They hit the brakes duh.

  • @RoninX33
    @RoninX33 ปีที่แล้ว

    I see this will be out in a few generations

  • @TimothyLipinski
    @TimothyLipinski ปีที่แล้ว

    Great video and into ! The NASA designed "24-Hour Lunar Shuttle" (LEO to LLO) has the engine to take US from the deep gravity well of LEO to Mars ! The Mars rocket can refuel with Oxygen at Mars orbit for the return to Earth. The VASIMR engine is the best engine til fusion power plants are developed ! Also the Fusion Rocket Engines will be powered by He3 recovered from the Lunar Regolith ! ! ! Talk to you on yhe moon soon, tjl T. Lipinski

  • @NicholasNerios
    @NicholasNerios ปีที่แล้ว

    Fingers crossed Pulsar pulls it off. 🙏

  • @mr_obscure_universe
    @mr_obscure_universe 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    ... and the win goes to laser propelled photon sails, for frugal space flight.

  • @stephen6866
    @stephen6866 ปีที่แล้ว

    Ok ! I m ready for soace travel 😅

  • @andrewreynolds912
    @andrewreynolds912 ปีที่แล้ว

    It's 105 ISP? That's really bad but yet they say it uses little fuel I think you mistaken the actual ISP I know as a sci fi nerd their are DFDs have much more ISP than that in the hundreds to thousands

  • @nightlightabcd
    @nightlightabcd ปีที่แล้ว

    I've been hearing about such things for about the last thirty years and it hasn't happened yet!

  • @Cant_find_good_Handle
    @Cant_find_good_Handle ปีที่แล้ว

    If I was going to compete in the space race I would name my start up “Just Use Some Thorium Fission Until Competitors Kill-themselves”, or JUST FUCK for short.

  • @aleksanderkuncwicz7277
    @aleksanderkuncwicz7277 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    People should make a plane using this to the moon.

  • @DirtyLilHobo
    @DirtyLilHobo ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Unfortunately, until WARP DRIVE is invented and refined there will be only short-term exploration of Space for a very long time.
    A manned mission to Mars will be a one-way ticket. It will not resemble a trip to the Moon as distances are far greater. A life support system must be maintained and work flawlessly for an enormous amount of time. Even a successful landing on Mars will require major life support. Mars's atmosphere is 95% carbon dioxide and oxygen is 0.13%, a trace element. Atmospheric pressure is like being at an altitude of around 135,000ft on Earth.

  • @HeroicTurkey
    @HeroicTurkey ปีที่แล้ว

    The power of the sun in the palm of my hands.

  • @housecarl1114
    @housecarl1114 ปีที่แล้ว

    Simmilar designs have been on the table for decades. My understanding is that the US and most other developed countries have not built it because of treaty obligations that forbid the use of nuclear materials for rocket propulsion.

    • @DavidKnowles0
      @DavidKnowles0 ปีที่แล้ว

      There no nuclear materials in this design.

  • @JamesMorgan-r9d
    @JamesMorgan-r9d ปีที่แล้ว

    Concrete makes 75% design strength in 3 days, 2-3 weeks for 100% (depending on the mix design). This is verified by compression tests on 6” x12” destructive test cylinders mad by a third party materials testing lab

  • @wombatillo
    @wombatillo ปีที่แล้ว

    Yeah I want to see it in operation in a vacuum chamber or in orbit before I believe it.

  • @titolino73
    @titolino73 ปีที่แล้ว

    We need some Da Vinci / Einstein type deal scientists...!

  • @Jeff-C-Dallas-Texas
    @Jeff-C-Dallas-Texas 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    We haven’t been able to create man made fusion. This may be possible in 30 years. They need to stick with Fission

  • @LoreLabTI
    @LoreLabTI ปีที่แล้ว +1

    1,050 Seconds? 105 ISP is worse than 300 ISP

  • @pebble24
    @pebble24 ปีที่แล้ว

    Super heavy B9 is confirmed for next flight. it's not about which is most probable. it is B9.

  • @MrWhiskers65
    @MrWhiskers65 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I was going to say “they’ve actually created a successful fusion reactor?”

  • @australien6611
    @australien6611 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Didn't realise they had even got fusion to work?

    • @Lyonsbane75
      @Lyonsbane75 ปีที่แล้ว

      Oh yeah, Fusion works. It’s just ‘barely’ breaking even though. Currently for ground-based Fusion power testing, you only get the amount of power out of it that you’re using to run it. Obviously, that’s not going to work for entire cities. So the work continues. Thankfully though, this engine is using the Plasma for the thrust and the power output for the ships electrical systems. Very economical.

  • @athan7199
    @athan7199 ปีที่แล้ว

    how do plan to get psst the van allen belt?