Could Tiny Fusion Rockets Revolutionize Spaceflight?

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Could Tiny Fusion Rockets Revolutionize Spaceflight?

A small NASA-funded company is slimming down nuclear fusion reactors for space science

    By Charles Q. Choi, SPACE.com on June 12, 2017
 

Fusion-powered rockets that are only the size of a few refrigerators could one day help propel spacecraft at high speeds to nearby planets or even other stars, a NASA-funded spaceflight company says.

Another use for such fusion rockets is to deflect asteroids that might strike Earth and to build manned bases on the moon and Mars, the researchers say.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/could-tiny-fusion-rockets-revolutionize-spaceflight/

[Just_Victor]

From the article:

However, so far, no one has built a fusion reactor that generates more energy than it consumes. Moreover, the fusion reactors that are under development are huge, making them difficult to hoist into space.

You know, an Infinite Improbability Drive could also revolutionize space flight.  But like the tiny fusion reactor, inventing it is still the major obstacle.

[Free Vulcan]

Full impulse power Mr. Scott.

[Joe Wooten]

From the article:
You know, an Infinite Improbability Drive could also revolutionize space flight.  But like the tiny fusion reactor, inventing it is still the major obstacle.

But it's just around the corner in another 20 years or so.........