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- 254
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- 2020
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- GBH
- Category
- science
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 13 Aug 2020
- Latest episode
- 6 Oct 2026
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Fusion and the Future of Space
Published 6 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] But there are, and there are also simultaneously companies which are looking at using the technology of fusion... a little bit like the one that you mentioned, but there's others as well too, about how to use particularly the plasma and magnetic technology, which primarily were developed from fusion, to actually get significant improvements in terms of propulsion performance as well too. So they're sort of like spin-offs. Yes, yeah. So in fact, one of those is one of these other companies that I've been helped getting off the ground, which is an adaptation... of the magnet technology we developed in fusion towards greatly improving the efficiency of thrusters that would be used, for example, in large-scale space propulsion, but also for things like microsatellites. […]
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