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ANTARISHQ Research
Harvesting the fire of stars.
Fusion, orbital solar arrays, and antimatter propulsion — engineering the power sources that will one day untether humanity from a single sun.
Our mission
To fund and accelerate the energy technologies without which interplanetary civilization is a fantasy — starting with fusion, ending with starlight itself.
In December 2022, Lawrence Livermore's National Ignition Facility crossed scientific breakeven: 3.15 MJ out from 2.05 MJ in. Private fusion (Helion, Commonwealth, TAE) now targets grid power in the 2030s. In space, fusion propulsion offers specific impulses of 10,000+ seconds — enough to reach Mars in weeks, not months.
Caltech's SSPD-1 demonstrated wireless power transmission from orbit in 2023. ESA's SOLARIS and JAXA's OHISAMA target GW-class orbital arrays. Above the atmosphere, solar flux is 1361 W/m² — 24 hours a day, weather-immune, latitude-independent. The bottleneck is launch cost and rectenna scale, both of which are collapsing.
Antimatter yields 90 PJ/kg — a billion times chemical fuel. Fermilab and CERN produce it in nanogram quantities today. ANTARISHQ's exotic-propulsion grants track the physics: magnetic mirror confinement, positron catalyzed fusion, and beamed-energy sails that never carry propellant at all.
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