It will be the first nuclear fusion engine

Leaving the earth requires powerful rockets, but once in space we need engines that will take us to the chosen destination in the shortest possible time, power is needed and they also consume little fuel, since putting a ton of fuel in space is very expensive and with today's chemical rockets many tons are needed to travel to Mars or beyond.

That is why many ships use gravitational assistance using the push of the planets' gravity to travel, it may be a slow method but it does not require fuel and allows space missions to be cheaper.

Pursuing the idea of achieving a powerful and economic engine that allows us to travel to Mars in just 30 days, for example, the British company Pulsar Fusion has just partnered with the American Princeton satellite assistance to create a rocket engine that works with a reactor of nuclear fusion.

To achieve this, they will also apply artificial intelligence in this way they will be able to advance faster in the development of the research and better understand very complex issues, such as the behavior of plasma at high temperatures and in electromagnetic confinement.

Nuclear fusion seeks to produce energy as stars do by fusing hydrogen atoms. Currently, reactors can fuse atoms but it is not easy since they do not produce enough energy and do it continuously to make it profitable, although it is something that is expected to be achieved within a few years.

When they achieve it, it will be something that will completely change our way of obtaining energy and will mean an advance for humanity as a civilization, we will obtain the energy of the stars.

Developing a space nuclear fusion engine as these two companies want will not be easy either, but it has the advantage that it will be simpler than creating a nuclear fusion power plant to obtain electrical energy here on earth, as this is possible.

In space, many of the elements that are in a terrestrial power plant are not needed, in addition, space is the ideal place to do fusion because there is a vacuum and extremely cold temperatures, fusion propulsion does not need a giant steam turbine as it happens in power plants and fuels can be sourced externally rather than having to be created on site.

According to the experts who are developing this project, its fusion engine will be a thousand times more powerful than ion engines, a type of engine that has been used in various spacecraft, the last one in the Dark Probe that crashed into the Dimorphos asteroid to divert it.

The companies that have partnered aim to create a space rocket engine with the potential to reach 500,000 miles per hour that would cut travel time to Mars by just 30 days and make Saturn's moon Titan reachable in two years.

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