Fusion fuel procurement

Fusion fuel from the gas giants:

Nuclear fusion propulsion requires nuclear fuels such as Deuterium, Helium3, Tritium and a few other candidates. Helium3, used with deuterium, is a naturally occuring fuel that is available from the Moon’s regolith or the gas giants: Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus or Nepture. He3 can aso be maufactured in fusion reactors through Tritium decay.

A shuttle moves up to an Helium three – deuterium extraction plant in Uranus’ atmosphere.

Papers

In-Situ Resource Utilization, Factories, and Moon Mining Parametric Analyses Bryan Palaszewski2025
Outer Planet Resource Processing, Moon Base Propulsion, and Vehicle Design Issues Bryan Palaszewski
Interplanetary Transfer Vehicles, In-Situ Resource Utilization, and Moon Mining IssuesBryan Palaszewski2024
The Atmospheric Mining in the Outer Solar System series of articles

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