Rocketstar.nyc - "ConstantQ Thruster"

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CharlesKramer
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Rocketstar.nyc - "ConstantQ Thruster"

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Caught this with a Google "Alert." It has the right words -- fusion, boron, space, aneutronic....

"The ConstantQ Thruster uses a new type of fusion (non Tokamak) to generate propulsion."

https://www.sbir.gov/node/2218177

Non-Tokamak... now I know everything. : )

Does "constant q" mean not a pulse device (in the way a dense plasma focus is a pulse device)?

Its website is very grand (listing many types of big projects); it's funding not so much. https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/rocketstar

https://www.linkedin.com/in/chris-craddock-4525973/ A *banker* not a physicist. Harrumph!

https://www.globenewswire.com/news-rele ... lsion.html

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- RocketStar Receives U.S. Space Force Contract to Develop Fusion-Powered Deep Space Propulsion

RocketStar Forges Ahead in Propelling U.S. and Allied Space Assets

New York, NY (November 1, 2022) – RocketStar has been awarded a contract by the United States Air Force (USAF) AFWERX program for a Phase II Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) award to continue its effort in the development a fusion-powered space engine called the Boron-Enhanced Electric Propulsion (BEEP) Drive. The BEEP Drive project is a collaboration between Rocketstar, Rhea Space Activity, Inc., and Miles Space, Inc.

The award marks an essential next step for RocketStar’s evolving offering of space propulsion technologies. The new grant was secured based on extraordinary Phase 1 results, which saw the company and its partners achieve aneutronic fusion by observing a high degree of alpha particles. RocketStar’s aneutronic fusion technology creates a fusion reaction of a boron nucleus with a proton that produces alpha particles.

This Phase 2 award will allow for third party validation of the fusion, as well as the ability to accurately quantify thrust output.
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Re: Rocketstar.nyc - "ConstantQ Thruster"

Post by Giorgio »

You did a good research.
It seems just another pork barrel grant. I do not see any new idea or innovation in the word soup.
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