The space agency is investing in the development of a propulsion system that uses nuclear power to create plasma bursts.
The future of space travel depends on our ability to reach celestial pit stops faster and more efficiently. As such,
’s Innovative Advanced Concepts program recently selected six promising projects for additional funding and development, allowing them to graduate to the second stage of development. The new “science fiction-like concepts,” as described by John Nelson, NIAC program executive at began developing its own version back in 2018 under the name Pulsed Fission-Fusion . PuFF relied on a device commonly used to compress laboratory plasmas to high pressures for very short timescales, called z-Pinch, to produce thrust. The pulsed plasma rocket, however, is smaller, simpler, and more affordable, according to
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