Fusion Propulsion for Spacecraft

[joelupchurch]

I found this presentation on Fusion Propulsion here:

http://fti.neep.wisc.edu/presentations/jfs_jannaf_1205.pdf

The Gas Dynamic Mirror seemed the most interesting and I got a lot of Google hits on it, but here are some guys working on actual proof of concept hardware.

http://memagazine.asme.org/articles/2008/november/Go_Beyond.cfm (http://memagazine.asme.org/articles/2008/november/Go_Beyond.cfm http://www.reiszengineers.com/space.php4 http://www.reiszengineers.com/twodimensional.php4)

http://www.reiszengineers.com/space.php4

http://www.reiszengineers.com/twodimensional.php4

[Bob S]

The U.S AEC built several nuclear powered rocket engines and tested them in Nevada. See
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_thermal_rocket
The most powerful fission reactor engine ran for 12 minutes at 4,000 megawatts. The coolant/propulsion gas was hydrogen.