Bussard Ramjet Starship Drive. Posted: May 20, 2025 | Last updated: May 20, 2025. To travel between the stars requires vast amounts of fuel and energy, but as it turns out, the ocean of night in ...

In Poul Anderson's 1970 novel Tau Zero, a starship crew seeks to travel to the star Beta Virginis in hopes of colonizing a new planet.The ship's mode of propulsion was a so-called "Bussard ramjet ...

In Poul Anderson's 1970 novel Tau Zero, a starship crew seeks to travel to the star Beta Virginis in hopes of colonizing a new planet.The ship's mode of propulsion is a "Bussard ramjet," an actual ...

The Bussard Ramjet is an elegant solution for sending crewed missions to other star systems, at least in theory. Earlier concepts like nuclear pulse propulsion (NPP) and fusion propulsion had been ...

Space illustrator Adrian Mann created these concept images of futuristic nuclear-powered interstellar starships, including Daedalus and Project Icarus.

The Bussard Ramjet drive has been proven not to work, but laying out a runway of fuel could work. This has been examined in more detail. Fuel is deliberately emplaced in the path of the spacecraft ...

The dark matter starship assumes that there is dark matter around and that the dark matter can be scooped up for fuel like Bussard Ramjet could scoop of hydrogen. They speculate that one of the ...

The result is unfortunately disappointing for fans of interstellar travel: it cannot work the way Robert Bussard, the inventor of this propulsion system, thought it up in 1960.

Defense News looks into Robert Bussard and his fusion machine, which has received, according to the article, ... In 1960, he developed — on paper — the Bussard ramjet, ...