Impatient? A Spacecraft Could Get to Titan in Only 2 Years Using a Direct Fusion Drive

Impatient? A Spacecraft Could Get to Titan in Only 2 Years Using a Direct Fusion Drive
By Andy Tomaswick

Fusion power is the technology that is thirty years away, and always will be – according to skeptics at least.  Despite its difficult transition into a reliable power source, the nuclear reactions that power the sun have a wide variety of uses in other fields.  The most obvious is in weapons, where hydrogen bombs are …

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