UK and US companies team up to study nuclear fusion rockets for spaceships

Two high-technology startup companies, one British and one American, are partnering to use artificial intelligence (AI) to develop a nuclear fusion rocket propulsion system for interplanetary spacecraft. The two enterprises are Princeton Satellite Systems (US) and Pulsar Fusion (UK). A nuclear fusion rocket motor would produce 1 000 times the power of the conventional ion thrusters currently used in space and could allow a spaceship to achieve speeds of up to 805 000 km/h. This would allow a vessel to reach Mars in only 30 days, instead of the current seven or so months. A voyage to Saturn’s moon Titan could be done in two years, instead of the current seven years.