Nuclear fusion startup test fires plastic waste-powered rocket

A UK startup with ambitious hopes for sustainable space travel has successfully tested a rocket engine partially fuelled by plastic garbage.

Pulsar Fusion’s hybrid rocket engine is part of a larger mission that includes the development of nuclear fusion technology for high-speed propulsion, which might halve the time required to reach Mars.

Virgin Galactic experimented with the idea in 2014, using a rocket propelled by a thermoset plastics-based fuel, but the project was quickly abandoned following a failed test flight.

Skyrora, a Scottish startup, is also developing such a technology, having successfully tested its Ecosene fuel created from recycled plastic trash.

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