Author: Michael Paluszek
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JPL Tour
On Monday, March 25, my family and I went on a tour of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Dr. Slava Turyshev, showed us around the lab. Slava was a co-author of our paper, “Direct Fusion Drive for the Gravitational Lens Mission.” We saw the “7 Minutes of Terror” video showing a Mars landing. The complexity of…
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PFRC Mentioned in the IEEE Spectrum
The Princeton Field Reversed Configuration device was mentioned in an IEEE Spectrum article on Field Reversed Configurations (FRC). FRCs are magnetic confinement devices that are an alternative to the better-known Tokamaks, Stellarators, and Mirrors. TAE and Helion were featured in the article. PFRC is found near the end of the online version of the article.
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IAEA Fusion Energy Conference 2023
I attended the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Fusion Energy Conference (2023) held in London, UK. I was part of the United States of America delegation. My poster was on the business of fusion and particularly about the unique business aspects of PFRC. My poster session was on Saturday. The first thing I did was…
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PSS SunStation Solar Power System
We are working to develop the Princeton Field Reversed Configuration (PFRC) nuclear fusion power plant. We’ll be at the IAEA Fusion Energy Conference in London this month to present the latest news about PFRC. We also build SunStation solar power systems. This probably makes us the only fusion company to have delivered fusion power (albeit…
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Beyond Earth Symposium
The Beyond Earth Institute is conducting the Beyond Earth Symposium LEO to Lunar to Living Beyond Earth:Policy Pathways to Space Migration November 1-2, 2023 There will be attendees from the U.S. Space Force, The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), NASA, and many private companies. The Beyond Earth Institute is a non-profit think tank that conducts…
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Space Movies
Movies about space, both fiction and historical, have inspired engineers and scientists since movies were first produced. Here is my list of movies. I’ve included links to IMDB. Moon. This movie is a realistic depiction of helium-3 mining on the moon, with an interesting twist. Helium-3 is an isotope of helium used for a wide…
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India’s Chandrayaan-3 Lands on the Moon!
Congratulations to the Indian Space Research Organization for the successful landing of the Chandrayaan-3 spacecraft on the moon! This is the first spacecraft to land near the Lunar South Pole. The spacecraft includes a rover. The spacecraft will return information that will help future missions.
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ARPA-E Fusion Programs Annual Meeting
I attended the ARPA-E Fusion Programs Annual Meeting at the Omni Parker House Hotel in Boston, MA, June 14-15, 2023. The hotel is a landmark situated in the very heart of Boston. Here is a detail of the elevator. The meeting venue was spectacular. We were on the top floor of the Omni Parker House.…
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Rankine Cycle MATLAB Software
Rankine cycles are used to produce power from coal and nuclear fission power plants. They also serve as the bottoming cycle for combined cycle power plants. In the future, the Rankine cycle may be used to produce power from nuclear fusion power plants. Princeton Satellite Systems has added Rankine cycle functions to release 2023.1 of…
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Final Titan Aircraft Paper Published in Acta Astronautica
The final version of our paper, “Nuclear Fusion Powered Titan Aircraft,” by Mr. Michael Paluszek, Ms. Annie Price, Ms. Zoe Koniaris, Dr. Christopher Galea, Ms. Stephanie Thomas, Dr. Samuel Cohen, and Ms. Rachel Stutz is now available, open access, on the Acta Astronautica website. As described in our earlier post, the paper discusses a mission…
