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Today's tweet from IVO Ltd's CEO:

Richard Mansell wrote: LEOP of Barry-1 is going very slowly, but it is progressing. I appreciate @RogueSpaceCorp's work toward preparations for the Quantum Drive's first test. No exact date yet.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GCuBMt3XYAAe8wD?format=jpg&name=small 1. ZAP achieves Q(sci) > 1. 2. Helion generates net power. 3. SpaceX launches and lands a Starship. Very humble hope: 4. IVO's Quantum Drive demonstrably works. Also: 5. The USA doesn't go crazy during its election year. 6. Conflicts...

Creating a thread for this (almost) new fusion company. They formed as Princeton Stellarators in 2022 and rebranded to "Thea Energy" after that. https://www.globenewswire.com/en/news-release/2023/07/27/2712179/0/en/Thea-Energy-Selected-for-U-S-Department-of-Energy-Public-Private-Partnership-Award-Th...

Merry Christmas, everyone!

A tweet from IVO Ltd's CEO: Barry-1 is continuing to progress through LEOP at this time and we appreciate the hard work and great progress @RogueSpaceCorp is making. Quantum Drive #QI testing has been postponed until January. Also: Some say that our Quantum Drives are just to scam some VCs (no VCs a...

Zap highlights its accomplishments of 2023:

https://www.zapenergy.com//blog/2023-by-the-numbers

Here's an encouraging figure:

Eh? According to this "Jon Beam, Chief Operating Officer, praised the Mission Operations team for their exceptional work and agility, advancing ahead of schedule toward completing primary mission objectives by year's end ." https://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=60008.0 There are actuall...

NORAD orbit data for Barry-1. Regularly updated.

https://celestrak.org/NORAD/elements/gr ... ATNR=58338

How much would they need just to maintain orbit? Taken from one of Mike McCulloch's tweets:



If it starts maintaining average altitude or rising, that's a pretty strong indication.

They call Commonwealth Fusion Systems "the 800-pound gorilla in fusion". "It's a giant". "It's the safest bet".

"Helicity Space raises $5 million for fusion engine development" https://spacenews.com/helicity-space-raises-5-million-for-fusion-engine-development/ SAN FRANCISCO — Helicity Space, a California startup developing fusion engines for spaceflight, has raised $5 million in a seed funding round announce...

Can't locate the reference, but I remember the CEO stating that they wouldn't announce any results for two to six months after launch.

I read somewhere that the grid fins actually could play a role in flipping the first stage, via interaction with the engine exhaust of Starship during the hot-staging.

From Twitter: First FRC in our Polaris Formation test! https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GACW9TVbYAAiOU3?format=jpg&name=small What an awesome photo of our deuterium plasma injector testing! This is the first at this scale of FRC to be made by fully semiconductor switching – think billions of pulses (deca...

Having worked in heavy industry, I've seen things much bigger than 3m transported by road. Let's consider too, the current Helion facility won't be the only production facility, if for no other reason than there's a much larger manufacturing base on the other side of the Rockies from them, with far...