Fusion News: Time – Going to Mars via Fusion Power?

Princeton Satellite Systems (PSS), a small company composed of scientists and engineers, are looking into the benefits of fusion power for space exploration. As Time writes in their article, “Going to Mars via Fusion Power? Could Be,”

The advantages of such a breakthrough are easy enough to see: a fusion rocket for a Mars mission, says company founder Michael Paluszek, “would be smaller than a minivan, and you could get there and back in less than a year, compared with more than two years for chemical rockets.”