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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...

I've written a few long, detailed answers to a few people objections and doubts, that took me some time to compose to my satisfaction, and they are just hidden to everyone. :roll: YouTube apparently allows content posters to "hide users", meaning they can select users to make their comments invisib...

https://www.einnews.com/pr_news/618685095/nano-diamond-battery-ndb-launches-crowdfunding-offering-to-revolutionize-the-energy-industry NDB Inc., a cutting-edge power company, is proud to announce the launch of a crowdfunding offering to bring its innovative Nano Diamond Battery technology to consume...

https://www.tomshardware.com/news/super ... ate-claims

"16 Teams Race to Validate Superconductor Breakthrough, Find Mixed Results"

There's a nice table summarizing them.

https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/breakthrough-fusion-solutions-from-nt-tao-offer-clean-energy/ By achieving an impressive efficiency of over 32% in prototype A and further improving performance in prototype B with a stronger power supply, NT-Tao showcases its ability to optimize energy transfer and e...

The shock of net electric from fusion in a 50 MWe plant prototype machine will be earth shattering. Imagine the solar, wind, battery pushers once the announcement blows up the narrative, not to mention the fission people. This worries me. Some of them are so invested that they might do everything t...

I might just be catching up on events, but the FIA has set up a Space Committee:

https://www.fusionindustryassociation.o ... committee/

Some competition for Helicity: Pulsar Fusion.

https://news.satnews.com/2023/07/06/nuc ... akthrough/

They hope to demonstrate an exhaust speed of ~500,000 mph in a static test fire in 2025.

Six minute talk by Eric Lerner, titled "Who's Ahead in the Fusion Energy Race"?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T8QXC5M ... =LPPFusion

David Kirtley replied to the Helion Energy tweet, adding:

These are going to be some big FRCs! As particle confinement time scales as r^2.9, this going to let us go to even higher temperatures and longer burn times.