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#Space 🌌 is a far more logical, sensible place to do #fusion, because that’s where it wants to happen anyway. In 📆 2027, we’re going to send a small part of #Sunbird in #orbit. The first #functional Sunbird will be ready four to five years later. Sunbird could deliver #cargo to #Mars 🔴 in under six months edition.cnn.com/science/nuclea

CNN · Nuclear-powered rocket concept could cut journey time to Mars in halfBy Jacopo Prisco

Reading about @arthurfox 's album called Orbit and Sam Lawler's (@sundogplanets) discussion of the orbits of Saturn's newly-discovered moons brought up a memory from my childhood.

While driving through Manitoba on the Trans-Canada highway on vacation in 1966, my family passed many signs exhorting us to "Put your trash into Orbit!"

Now it looks like the trash is coming back....from orbit.

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westenddumplings.blogspot.com"Put your trash into Orbit" © 2011, Christian Cassidy September 4, 1969 Manitoba Highways ad (Winnipeg Tribune) The Manitoba Highways Department introduced "Apo...
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#Competition accelerates #innovation : "What if we actually build a #SpaceStation, launch 🚀 it in #orbit, have a crew 👨‍🚀 of four go to it, spend two weeks at least in the space station, and come back home safely…before the U.S. #government makes their decision?” (in 📆 2026) youtu.be/us_V_e0-NVs?feature=s

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The #3Dprinted prototype was able to generate thrust more #efficiently than larger, more expensive #chemical rockets and outperformed existing droplet #electrospray engines. It can be produced rapidly and for a fraction of the #cost 💵 of traditional thrusters and even be fully made in #orbit 🌌 news.mit.edu/2025/mit-engineer

MIT News | Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyMIT engineers develop a fully 3D-printed electrospray engineBy Adam Zewe | MIT News