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... cover the mission distance and return to Earth within a reasonable time. These velocities require propulsion systems beyond anything currently being developed, but within the capabilities of known materials and physics ... /For%20Kids/KidstoSpace.html Click here Category:Kids To Space Category:Kids To Space - ROCKETS

... developments such as the Ion Compressed Antimatter Nuclear (ICAN-II) propulsion system proposed by the Pennsylvania State University Center for Space Propulsion Engineering open the way to the possible use of available ... of antiprotons to power antimatter assisted inertial confinement fusion (AAICF) propulsion systems for interstellar missions. Analysis indicates that light weight AAICF propulsion systems with specific impulses in excess of seven hundred thousand ...

... Interplanetary Society for Volume 60 60 '''Page ''' - 268-274 '''Year''' - 2007 '''Keywords''' - Coulomb force, Hybrid propulsion, Spacecraft swarms, Formation flying '''JBIS Reference Code ''' - 2007.60.268 '''Number of Pages''' - 7 Abstract ... in swarms and reports the first results of a novel hybrid propulsion system recently developed for close- proximity motion. This hybrid propulsion system takes advantage of Coulomb spacecraft charging, saving on fuel ...

... -70 '''Year''' - 2012 '''Keywords''' - Metal, powder, fuel, ISRU, propulsion '''JBIS Reference Code ''' - 2012.65.61 '''Number of Pages''' - 10 Abstract Metal powder propulsion systems have been addressed intermittently since the Second World War, initially in the field of underwater propulsion where research in the application of propelling torpedoes continues until this day. During the post ...

... s) pulse lengths are made to strike thin solid targets. When viewed from a propulsion standpoint such systems can produce specific impulses of several million seconds albeit at modest thrusts ... relativistic plasma driven by ultrafast lasers particularly attractive for propulsion applications. We introduce the "Laser Accelerated Plasma Propulsion System" LAPPS, and demonstrate its potential propulsive capability by addressing an interstellar mission to the ...

... Society for Volume 59 59 '''Page ''' - 230-238 '''Year''' - 2006 '''Keywords''' - Human exploration missions, electric propulsion, lunar mission architectures, space architectures, Mars mission architectures, space exploration cost, cost reduction '''JBIS Reference ... of in-space propulsion and crew habitation systems. Independent cost analyses are presented and architectures with and without electric propulsion are compared in terms of average annual cost. Electric propulsion architectures can approach ...

... York, 1959: Pergamon Press, Inc., 237 pages, $6.00'' Advanced Propulsion Systems contains the papers delivered at the First Advanced Propulsion Systems Symposium sponsored by the US Air Force Office of Scientific Research and North American Aviation, Inc. Propulsion systems, power sources, propellants, etc., are considered, with chapters on ion propulsion systems, solar heating, thrust from plasma, ozone and fluorine ...

... for Volume 57 57 '''Page ''' - 379-390 '''Year''' - 2004 '''Keywords''' - Bolonkin space propulsion system, light engine, multi-reflex propulsion, space energy transfer '''JBIS Reference Code ''' - 2004.57.379 '''Number of Pages''' - 12 ... to mechanical energy (light engine), to name a few. This article considers the multi-reflex propulsion systems for space and air vehicles and energy transmitter for long distances in space. '''To ...

... Volume 59 59 '''Page ''' - 306-312 '''Year''' - 2006 '''Keywords''' - Ceres, minor planets, micromission, solar electric propulsion, spacecraft design '''JBIS Reference Code ''' - 2006.59.306 '''Number of Pages''' - 7 Abstract The largest ... increasing spacecraft size to devote a greater fraction to power and propulsion, an approach minimizing mass in "core" systems allows electric propulsion to use smaller thrusters and lower power levels. Mission design ...

... of the British Interplanetary Society for Volume 60 60 '''Page ''' - 304-308 '''Year''' - 2007 '''Keywords''' - Propulsion system, plug nozzle, engine cluster, planetary, lunar, moon, lander, main and assist engine, throttable engine ... . To fulfil the mission needs of these planetary lander studies, preferably with a common chemical propulsion subsystem concept for all these studies to use as much commonalities as possible, a trade ...

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