By jorgebgt on Skatehive
The first ignition of the plasma engine for spacecraft. https://cdn.steemitimages.com/DQmXrwGFUYzeSdCQzeFunm6JCW7fwXG1n4YMMUxarv4VzRE/image.png Souce Pulsar Fusion, this British company that aims to build the first space tug powered by a fusion reactor, because its objectives are very interesting and would also save a lot of fuel for space rockets and would make trips to Mars, for example, much shorter but the problem is that at the moment they wrap their achievements with a very epic story and the massive use of images generated by artificial intelligence, apart from the fact that journalists get a lot of trouble these days. This company has managed to successfully ignite the first plasma engine, it is not the rocket itself and it is not a fusion reactor, plasma uses electricity and they have not succeeded because they do not have a fusion reactor built, they have a long way to go to build a fusion reactor, nor does it have a fission reactor, they must have gotten electricity from the