While the Moon is accessible to us with current technology… the rest of the solar system… including Mars… will require breakthrough technology to colonize in a reasonable time frame. The technology now exists to expand humanity even beyond Mars… to the hundreds of other worlds throughout the solar system.
Join the Terran Space Academy and learn about this amazing research.
Special thanks to Professor Slough and the NASA Institute for Advanced Concepts and Fragomatik, the amazingly talented and generous artist who created the animation for the HOPE mission technology and the Fusion Driven Rocket concept.
Ad Astra Pro Terra
Shop the Academy store at…
Please help support our channel at…
Video Credits: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M6gdTX3TsZI
Disclaimer: This video is posted for educational purposes only. We do not intend to violate any copyright or intellectual property rights. All rights remain with their respective owners. If you have any concerns or issues regarding this content, please contact us Here.
Thank you for your understanding and support.
November 2021, Helion ( John Slough ) received $0.5 billion in Series E funding, with an additional $1.7 billion of commitments tied to specific milestones
Thanks so much really appreciate your efforts. If you are ever in south africa hit me up for dinner on my farm
One thing I really appreciate about these videos is that I can listen to them while doing other things, and still get the point…
AD ASTRA PRO TERRA
I think the model of air-refuelling could also work – perhaps we have fuel depots/tankers in interplanetary orbits that are favourable for meeting transiting craft 'half way' – or simply have stations between planetary orbits that allow conventional chemical rockets to make the 'hop' between them. If we can get to Mars with chemical rockets? then we can get to the Mars after that, and the one after that…. if we put them there.
A tanker only has the reach the next hop with some fuel to spare and the entire system can be built – given fuel production will happen at the other end of the route? it'll become easier to keep the chain fuelled up for use.
Any details about testing this engine scheme here, on earth?
I always liked ambitious exploration plans that are technologically reallistical, like HOPE or the 1968 IMIS. Well planned and thought-out architectures with achievable, even simple technology.
Wow. A narrator who knows how to pronounce "nuclear". Hard to believe since President Bush first began mispronouncing it so long ago.
Can you imagine being on a space ship with the constant low frequency vibration of a pulsing fusion engine for more than a month. (Be honest. No shock absorber would ever be able to filter all of that nuclear engine vibration.) That would would drive even the toughest test pilot/astronaut nuts.
Thank you for a mentally stimulating video. Much is possible with the technology of today and the foreseeable future. The critical issue is economics. Forward thinking dreamers have only a sway on a small percent of economic output. The Apollo program was an anomaly where it was able to corral 2.5 % of GDP annually over a 10-year period. No science or exploration was able to before or since gain such lavish funding. All future missions of exploration will have a minimalistic funding or economic imperatives. The key to a future as exciting as your video envisioned will require a vigorous space economy. All initial efforts need to be aimed for developing economic reasons to be in space. Tourism and asteroid / lunar resource mining will provide initial impetus. When metal production can be made in space, massive structures will be much less costly to produce. Large orbiting resort stations and even O'Neill cylinders become economically possible with off earth resources. Enormous space liners going to and fro between Earth, Mars, Venus and Mercury with comfort and safety should be common place. Only then I can see high speed fusion powered craft being funded for Jupiter and beyond exploration, exploitation and colonization.