>Pentagon Contracts Private Firms to Put Fusion Reactor in Space by 2027
From 2014: "The defense firm Lockheed Martin sent tech geeks into a frenzy yesterday when it revealed a few scant details of a "compact fusion reactor" (CFR) that a small team has been working on at the company's secretive Skunk Works in Palmdale, California. The company says that its innovative method for confining the superhot ionized gas, or plasma, necessary for fusion means that it can make a working reactor 1/10 the size of current efforts, such as the international ITER fusion project under construction in France."
Updated: Are old secrets behind Lockheed's new fusion machine?
Speculation swirls over design of potentially world-changing device 17 OCT 2014
https://www.science.org/content/article/updated-are-old-secrets-behind-lockheeds-new-fusion-machine
The US Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division filed a patent for a compact fusion reactor (CFR) last month, one that claims to improve upon the shortcomings of the Lockheed Martin Skunkworks CFR that uses similar “plasma confinement” technology.
The man behind the state-of-the-art design is US Navy researcher Salvatore Cezar Pais, who received major publicity for patenting room-temperature superconductors and a suspiciously UFO-like aircraft that uses “anti-gravity” technology.
The US Navy patent claims that it can achieve these enormous amounts of energy in a compact device through the use of spinning dynamic fusors – plasma containment devices – which keep nuclear plasma stable in a way that mimics the mass of the sun.
A Breakthrough In American Energy Dominance? U.S. Navy Patents Compact Fusion Reactor
https://www.forbes.com/sites/arielcohen/2019/10/30/a-breakthrough-in-american-energy-dominance-us-navy-patents-compact-fusion-reactor/?
Plasma Compression Fusion Device
https://patents.google.com/patent/US20190295733A1/en