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TFINER artist's depiction James Bickford at Charles Stark Draper Laboratory is developing TFINER, a Phase II NIAC concept that generates thrust from the natural decay of radioactive thin films. The technology could enable spacecraft to rendezvous with interstellar objects and reach the solar gravitational focus. Presented at the 2026 NIAC Symposium. NASA/James Bickford