Product Concepts

Many companies have their own views of product concepts. Some companies look for the best quality over quantity. They look for the best products that functions very well and suits their needs as well. They are willing to look past the cost of the production for the best quality.

A few weeks ago Boeing has teamed up with NASA, university of Alabama in Huntsville aero physics research center and oak ridge national laboratory are working together to form a new project to produce nuclear fusion impulse rocket engines. You’re probably wondering what nuclear fusion impulse engines are, well let me explain it to you in a better context. Remember star trek, the television series? Well guess what, this engine will be similar to it. It although may not be “warp speed”, but it still would let us travel the galaxy a lot quicker than space rockets.

What an impulse engine looked like in Star Trek

 

Based on the information from Txchnologist.com, the scientists are hoping to release the impulse engines by 2030. It is said that this engine would take a spacecraft from earth to mars in as little as 6 weeks compared to the recent shuttle that was launched earlier this year (2012) where the Curiosity Lander took 253 days. This engine will be fueled by stabilized isotope of hydrogen (deuterium) and Li6 (a stable isotope of the metal lithium) in a crystal structure, which is basically dilithium crystals, just like they use in star trek!

Dilithium crystals used in Star Trek

 

This surely will attract company buyers and get keep a close eye on their progress because this is the biggest project people have seen for an outer space project since the space shuttle and the moon landing. This project will let us travel and explore this galaxy and possibly even the universe in the near future, and we may even hit “warp speed”!

The making of the impulse engine