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A tweet from IVO Ltd's CEO: Barry-1 is continuing to progress through LEOP at this time and we appreciate the hard work and great progress @RogueSpaceCorp is making. Quantum Drive #QI testing has been postponed until January. Also: Some say that our Quantum Drives are just to scam some VCs (no VCs a...

Zap highlights its accomplishments of 2023:

https://www.zapenergy.com//blog/2023-by-the-numbers

Here's an encouraging figure:

Eh? According to this "Jon Beam, Chief Operating Officer, praised the Mission Operations team for their exceptional work and agility, advancing ahead of schedule toward completing primary mission objectives by year's end ." https://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=60008.0 There are actuall...

NORAD orbit data for Barry-1. Regularly updated.

https://celestrak.org/NORAD/elements/gr ... ATNR=58338

How much would they need just to maintain orbit? Taken from one of Mike McCulloch's tweets:



If it starts maintaining average altitude or rising, that's a pretty strong indication.

They call Commonwealth Fusion Systems "the 800-pound gorilla in fusion". "It's a giant". "It's the safest bet".

"Helicity Space raises $5 million for fusion engine development" https://spacenews.com/helicity-space-raises-5-million-for-fusion-engine-development/ SAN FRANCISCO — Helicity Space, a California startup developing fusion engines for spaceflight, has raised $5 million in a seed funding round announce...

Can't locate the reference, but I remember the CEO stating that they wouldn't announce any results for two to six months after launch.

I read somewhere that the grid fins actually could play a role in flipping the first stage, via interaction with the engine exhaust of Starship during the hot-staging.

From Twitter: First FRC in our Polaris Formation test! https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GACW9TVbYAAiOU3?format=jpg&name=small What an awesome photo of our deuterium plasma injector testing! This is the first at this scale of FRC to be made by fully semiconductor switching – think billions of pulses (deca...

Having worked in heavy industry, I've seen things much bigger than 3m transported by road. Let's consider too, the current Helion facility won't be the only production facility, if for no other reason than there's a much larger manufacturing base on the other side of the Rockies from them, with far...

A little weird, I do not see the need to collect a "baseline of orbital data" if you have 45mN of thrust with a single W of consumption as claimed. They could simply switch them on and check if the orbit rises or not over one or more days. That is unless there is more fundamental operational detail...

SpaceX Transporter 9 launched today, carrying Rogue Space System''s Barry-1 which houses two of Ivo Ltd's Quantum Drives. Richard Mansell, CEO of IVO, tweeted: We have several weeks of LEOP before we can start our testing. Don't expect any testing until December sometime. Collecting a baseline of or...

From Twitter: Testing continues! https://pbs.twimg.com/media/F9dUWuybsAAOk_O?format=jpg&name=small Yeah! Working through shakedown tests always leads to a few fun challenges. Early we had some issues with control system data readback, but now we are back up and running, getting to full magnetic fiel...