15 TIMES faster than Nuclear Rockets! Pulsar Fusion unveils new Sunbird Fusion Drive!
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- Опубликовано: 12 апр 2025
- Yesterday, Pulsar Fusion unveiled a revolutionary new space propulsion design called the Sunbird.
If it lives up to its potential, it will completely revolutionize Interplanetary Spaceflight!
And I got the first EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW!
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The owner seems like a pretty humble guy. I wish him the best of luck.
U really r wishing us all luck😊
I truly wish him all the best. Nice to see 🇬🇧 talent at its best 🤩
I think centrifugal forces using heavy metal rotation using electromagnetism as a driver might be a better option for the magnetic void between the magnetospheres of the sun the moon and the stars.
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ignore the ad hominem name calling attacks of homophobic, islamophobic, anti-Semite, Racist, Bigot, Xenophobe, Jingoist coming from the PAGAN tribalist racist religious invaders.
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Fleets of reusable Starships to lift things to orbit. Fusion engines to move the things we build in orbit to other planets. It's all starting to come together.
What NASA wanted with the Space Shuttles, just moving the Shuttle around this time.
Finally someone found a realistic use for Starship! Elon will overtake this company and claim he invented it
@@pedrosura Pulsar isn't the only one.
@@pedrosura that hate's gonna burn you up, kid
@@zimriel Hate? Starship can be used to lift things to LEO. As far as taking humans to Mars forget it. Its chemical rocket engines. Get a degree in aerospace engineering and then come back. Sounds like someone likes Koolaid instead of truth
In high school, in the late 1970’s, I saw an article in Astronomy Magazine about the Enzmann Starships, powered by Orion nuclear fusion engines. Of course, it was just a concept design. But it inspired me to become a nuclear engineer and with an eye toward making those a reality. I took the fusion option at university to further that dream. Sadly, fusion as an idea was ahead of its time, and I ended up working on fission reactors for a 40 year career. I am so happy to see the dream of fusion engines finally becoming a reality, nearly 50 years later! I guess I was born too early. 😂
Love your content by the way!
Orion is a Nuclear Fission Engine, not Fusion. It is basically a series of small nukes explogind behind the ship. Very different and nothing to so with Pulsar's project.
IDK.... with manufacturing tech today, it seems that an engineer could make some amazing things in the shed or the basement.
@@billstrozberg3932 For higher ISP just add teller-ulam stages! If you can build big enough, orion is absolutely a fusion engine
This was an amazing interview. Thank you so much! Fusion is a passion of mine, and Richard has all the right points.
Jordan you are one of the best researchers on planet earth! "Nobody does it better!" I'm dazzled. You deserve 10 million subscribers.
And you're speech is even more fluent than Savron's!
All the best to him and his team.
As a lifelong fan of science fiction for over 50 years it amazes me that I’m here to witness it all actually happening!
If you mean the kind of science fiction where we explore our own solar system yes, like THE EXPANSE or 2001. But it is looking like our solar system is our limit. Other star system where the distances are measured in light years might never get reached by us. "Star Trek" might never happen ever.
But where's the alien to fight against?
@@Zurround If you only believe the current physics dogma, yeah.
I absolutely love watching these sorts of videos. Hopefully, there will be more videos from other companies
I'm very glad you enjoyed it! I couldn't do this without your support, so thank you!!
Good. These different and ambitious approaches are what space exploration and exploitation needs, and this young man’s enthusiasm is wonderful. I wish him success!
Not a BS artist. Grounded and smart idea. This could actually work. 😊
🤣🤣🤣
Very grounded bullshit
Exactly what did he show was feasible here? We don't even know if this reactor would work on paper let alone as a prototype. All he displayed was a hall effect thruster which are very common.
Thanks! A nickel in the hat. Love your content. This is exciting stuff.
THANKS SO MUCH! Your support makes a huge difference!
This would basically be like the "fusion torch" drive described in science fiction.
Thank you very much. These kinds of interviews are the actual highlight for me on this channel!
I barely understood a word that man said, I always struggle understanding what these genius's say. Yet find find myself totally engrossed and fascinated by it. Looking forward to the future. Awesome interview and video!
I've been waiting for this to drop ever since the Sunbird came up on my news feed and I looked at the Pulsar Fusion YT channel. I was wondering how they were going to get the He3 but glad to see they are going to breed it (There are several possible routes) rather than strip-mining the moon. Looking forward to your visit, it's going to be awesome!
"Space Tugs" - that's a cartoon series waiting to happen... 😎
there was a movie made about something like that... look up *Space Truckers.*
Dude seems down to Earth (so to speak) and has really interesting ideas!
Sabine is even on board with him!!!
High praise indeed!
now this is what we should get excited about
Mars in a couple months would be Awsome.
These will be great as tugs and Cyclers, thanks Jordan.
I hope your health improves.
I like the business focus blend with ambition - it's a company that builds engines in the pursuit of building better engines. I wish them luck.
This is an amazing concept- I’m dying to see where this goes
This is very exciting! The difficulties of developing such propulsion on Earth, requiring huge vacuum chambers and all that, makes me look forward to the day when Starship/Superheavy is commercialized and access to space becomes affordable to entrepreneurs and inventors such as the people at Pulsar. There are more than a few companies that will be able to develop new tech much faster once access to LEO is made affordable.
This is absolutely fantastic! This propulsion is what will take us to the planets and help us to settle the Solar System!!
"With Sunbird it's greener because the propulsion system is already in space"
Yes it just magically appears out of nowhere 😂
OMG, the "green" question. You make me want to jump out of a window.
That was GREAT! This was one of the best interviews I've seen in a long time. Thank you.
This is exactly what I've been suggesting for over a year now.....The nuclear engine never lands. It stays in orbit until a Starship comes up to mate with an available nuclear engine module. Refuel the Starship for a Mars landing and attach the nuclear engine then launch to Mars and arrive in Mars orbit 10 times faster than if Starship used it's onboard chemical powered engines.
Hybridization of techniques. I like it. Makes sense to have a multiple types of component approach given our current understanding of gravity/physics.
Excellent interview! Richard Dinan is scary smart. He authored "The Fusion Age: Modern Nuclear Fusion Reactors" in 2017, discussing the potential of fusion energy. Additionally, he has lectured on nuclear fusion at institutions like Oxford University. His website says they plan to test their Sunbird engine in orbit in 2027. Exciting times ahead! (ʘ_ʘ)
A pity Nuclear Fusion is always 30 years away
@@ajctrading They are not using full fusion though, as stated right in the start. They take some kind of shortcut by allowing matter to fuse in some kind of easier way and then expelling the result without the need to control it perfectly. We should prob. read up on a written explanation to get it clearer. And as a meme your comment works, but there is no way to hold back fusion as AI have surpassed the human mind and is soon at god-level computing if it gets access to a quantum computer. They are brilliant at overcoming weaknesses in any system just using a normal PC. Buy stocks in fusion sometime soon.
Fusion happening all the time, what you’re alluding to, I assume, is self-sustaining fusion as a power source for the grid. What Dinan is talking about a non-self-sustaining fusion reaction taking Helium3 and Deuterium in a field reverse confinement plasma that does make fusion happen. And he mentions this anutronic reaction produces a highly energetic proton which means it’ll be going fast
If it's non self sustaining then where is he getting the energy to power it? This concept doesn't make sense.
Your guess is good as mine.
He did mention fission, so in this case electricity from a NPP makes electromagnetic fields to generate a plasma in a FRC to generate fusion.
Richard has product which has made the leap from lab to market! This man DFA. (Doesn't Mess Around). Well done!
Glad to have you covering this subject. Thank You.
Yes, this was a pretty cool Video, love the updates on Future Space Technology.
Thanks Jordan. Excellent interview and video. Hopefully draw in more subscribers and support.
thanks for doing an update on these guys, very interesting project!
Great interview - I am really impressed by the ambitions and super impressed that they accually has viabel profit streams and not just dreams!!!
I get the impression that sometimes the owner Richard is carefully formulating his words so that we mere mortal would have a chance to grasp the concepts - but It is an order of magnitude more complex in reality!
Sunbird could be attached to Starship to take it to the moon and to Mars rather than Starship having to send up 10 or more other Starships to refuel just one Starship/HLS so that it can go to the moon
Correct!
Elon would never allow it. He would have to share the credit.
It's simple, build our own tin can, hail a SpaceX taxi to orbit a couple of times (don't forget the Sunbirds) strap 'em on in orbit and away we go!
Ok, "tin can" is a bit flippant, but there's no need to worry about the hard stuff like rocket engines - it's not designed for atmospheric flight. There are smaler landers\space planes that could be carried as stowage for that purpose.
My point is that the full focus can be put onto shielding, comfort, safety, reliability, reusability and doing this at scale, without having to worry about to-orbit propulsion concerns.
This could also be a good test for inflatable \dirigible systems currently being mooted as space platforms. If their designs could be improved to take the accelerations and stresses involved they might even be an option. Unmanned initially of course!
Cheers 👍🏼
@@TheAngryAstronautstill need to launch the astronauts on DreamChaser because Starship won’t be safe enough.
@@HarlanEllisonlives He already is, he is not the only organization associated with that mission. Get your head out of your MSM
Brilliant show really enjoyed your interview with Richard. 😎👍
You know, with cool stuff like this, I'm having trouble being angry.
love your content and your commitment to global space programs not just space x
I like this concept, it solves several problems neatly. Can't wait to see how this shakes out.
That's actually a bloody good idea.
This is exciting! I wish them the best. Would love to see this in action! Good luck to you, sir!
Pulsar found it's "Rich Nitch"! Way Cool! 😀 Rock(et) On!!
Fascinating! Awesome video. I wish Pulsar all the best!
To the moon in 1 hour 😳... Holy Cow 🤯... OUTSTANDING ❤
So cool,... can't wait for your video showcasing this technology. Only Angry does this content.
This looks like it's actually cracking the door open to something truly feasible. I remain skeptical but cautiously optimistic. All the best to them.
Nice coincidence! I was trying to find out more about this recently. Thanks!😊
Its time to test these in space now!
This is the correct answer.
They want to. Not ready yet, it's set for 2027.
This is great info - thank you for sharing!!
Great technology. Onward and upwards for Pulsar Fusion! 🚀
Wow TAA, this is so great to see, Thankyou for your work that you willingly do everyday, and thankyou to Pulsar for being innovative and at the same time being realistic in pushing engineering boundaries. Spectacular.
That propulsion system reminds me of what they're showing lays under the Pyramid
This was really interesting. Ion thrusters and fusion thrust is really the future for deep space missions.
So how do you generate a plasma? Where is the energy coming from? How are you confining the plasma long enough to fuse whilst also aiming the same plasma out of the rocket?
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Hi, Angry. Fantastic Video, congratulations. Please make more of these videos; I really loved them.
Thank you for sharing this valuable information with us. I truly appreciate your videos and look forward to seeing more of your great content!
Interesting, I hope to see more about this company in the future
Wow. The power of belief in an idea.
very interesting concept. hopefully you can make great progress in the near future.
I like this a lot and have long thought that fusion in space is where it's at. This seems to be a very practical approach and I'm looking forward to the next phase. Cheers.
A great slice of optimistic vision with the know how and finance pathway to get there. Looking decidedly unangry and with good reason.
Great piece Jordan, something I don't expect to hear of elsewhere. Keep it up! Deano in DC
VERY cool. Thanks for the video.
A very excellent episode, thanks Angry!
Very interesting. Really like the concept. Keep up the good work.
The shielding is going to be lead.... After the engine is done it by product is gold
Huh? How do you figure?
@@warbuzzard7167 proton radiation.... We have made lead to gold before
Wow... This is brilliant and I can "see" it. This might very well change the game with transit to the moon, Mars, and Venus.
I'm sure they already thought of this and just didn't bother to animate it but I can see either (1) the modular component can be rotated for a deceleration burn, but putting those kinds of forces on a rotating assembly might not be wise so the other option is (2) two sunbirds ride on the client vessel, oriented in opposite directions, one handles the departing acceleration burn, the other handles the arrival deceleration burn.
Born too late to explore the Earth, but just in time to begin exploring the stars.
Fracking awsome
Nice chatting to you mate @Costa this morning 👍keep going strong 💪
Very helpful vid. Thks AA.
Excellent and very informative video thanks for that.
so cool, wish i could get a tour too!
pulsar seems like a srsly legit company , i see your tremors are pretty rough in this vid AA i hope that you are taking care of yourself dood , we need u =] best wishes and GL
Great interview! Very exciting tech!
Man, he looks straight outta high school, and look what he's already accomplished. I'm truly impressed. And frankly, jealous. Wish him all the best with that technology.
That guy is 38 years old. Seems like the perfect age to manage a space-startup while knowing what you are doing. That company is 14 years old already.
I dig all your videos but this was by far my favorite just because of what it was about-direct to the source talking to a visionary dude who is about to revolutionize space travel with amazing cutting-edge technology. If this engine gets us to Mars I will always remember I heard it here first.
I would say you have to say "Stay happy...about spaaace!" now but you can still be angry that it's just one guy trying to come out of the wilderness-like he said it's not a boast to say that they're the largest operation working on these things, there should be a massive ongoing effort with a bunch of companies trying to make the best version of something.
Great Interview! 🚀
Dude, it sounds awesome. Let’s get her done. Hook them on starship and let’s go.
Love to see the Sci FI propolsion system being developed IRL hope they are able to make it work.
Sounds like Using Helium 3 is amazing for space infrastructure has the fuel refinery and production of the systems on the moon. have taxi stations near the earth moon and mars for the short term. and maybe once Mars has the infrastrucuture start generate it on Mars.
Great interview.
For those wondering if this kind of engine would be a game changer if you can get it to work... heck yes! A chemical rocket engine like that used by SpaceX and others, has a limited burn time of only a few minutes before it runs out of fuel. A fusion rocket on the other hand could run for months. If you want to get to Neptune you gotta accelerate for a long time, and then flip and decelerate quickly so as to make the trip time reasonable. Some of the unmanned space probes have so little thrust they can take 8 years to get to the outer planets.
So fusion power could speed up rockets by more than a factor of 10. So well worth investigating. But you do need an energy source to power these things, and that is another issue that needs solving. But we do have radioisotope generators that run for decades (like the ones used in Voyager). So this is very exciting technology.
Those 5000 Watt hall effect motors are quite impressive. Gotta have a lot of solar panels to run those. I guess people are building some very big satellites.
So impulse engines? Scotty would be proud!
Pulsar Fusion's work is thrilling! Another exciting ion thruster, patented for the highest thrust-to-mass ratio and efficiency, is uniquely designed to lift both its power supply and itself against Earth's gravity! The crafts are called the Ion Propelled Vehicle or Self-Contained Ion Powered Aircraft, there are more than 45 videos of them online.
That's a sick motor
Wow. Fantastic technology. The timing seems good for a test campaign launched on Starship a few years from now. Once the Sunbird is ready, Elon ought to be interested in licensing or leasing or whatever to setup a paired system in Earth and Mars orbits. Sure hope something like that scenario works for everyone.
Best content, Jordan! Great work!
this is brilliant ..thanks Angry
Gwynne Shotwell should be talking to these guys.
He is a cool human👍🏻
great work
Hopefully the Expanse style ships will appear start very soon. Pulsar Fusion is just the beginning.
I just started the expanse. That would be amazing
Puslar fusion drive sounds better than a Epstein drive 😅
@@johno1544 Unfortunately fusion drives as powerful as the Epstein are purely science fiction. They're like 100 times more powerful than even our most theoretical drives. Even better than some anti-matter drives.
Great episode.
My physics degree included quite a chunk on nuclear fusion. That was in 1983. Back then - before I became a seasoned engineer being involved in certain fusion inertial confinement research problems (and the like) I really believed everything was up for grabs in the decades hence.
40+ years later, older, wiser and with many tens of billions $$$ spent on the problem worldwide I just can't see we are significanly any closer to sustainable economic power from fusion on earth. Nor in space as a means of rocket propulsion. Great to see ideas still being kicked around and some reasearch funds being directed toward the challenge.
Maybe in hundreds or even thousands of years from now all this sluggish progress will converge to yield something useful. But I'd predict not in anyones lifetime reading this.
Sorry.
Thank you .
Fantastic info.
This would be easily achievable, as there are no problems with initiating fusion, the problems are all to do with the long term containment of such an event. However, containment would be the last of your concerns in a rocket, where aiming the fusion event is the only requirement.
Long thought fusion was an obvious choice for space since so many of the problems with fusion power are irrelevant in that use case.
You know, 20 years ago, this idea would seem too crazy, but just look at what HAS been done because it CAN be done. The recent mars rover, the way that rocket crane lowered the rover down just sounded impossible to me ....then we did it.
And just the other day, freaking SpaceX catching boosters the size of sky scrapers !!!
I like the sense this guy is making, i always wonder, what things could we make in space that will give us a different result than on Earth. For me, im excited to see any kind of metal forging or blacksmith work but in a vacuum in micro gravity.
We only know how to make things in earths atmosphere and gravity.
We still have a lot to learn.
I love this idea, im still a little confused on what part of the reaction creates the thrust, is it throwing out both the proton and helium?
Or does it somehow keep the helium and turn it back to helium 3 to reuse?
Really cool idea though.
This might be the only way we can get to mars right now with human technology
I started to believe in the premise and their expertise. And then they showed at 8:25 how the convoy arrives at Mars nose first instead of exhaust first which has me wonder how much they know about space flight...
Thank you