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decaffeinateddiyabstractpainter

3 years ago

Universe Today

New Calculations Show That an Interstellar Bussard Ramjet Drive Would Need a Magnetic Field Stretching 150 Million Kilometres - Universe Tod

A new analysis of the fabled Bussard Ramjet shows that the spacecraft would need an impossibly big magnetic field to achieve interstellar tr

The Bussard ramjet could only get to a fraction of the speed it would take for interstellar travel. I would also suggest missions with actual humans to be out of the question. In my humble opinion the future of space is in robotics.

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aspergers1044

8 years ago

Astronomers Have a Plan to Slow Down a Spacecraft When it Gets to Alpha Centauri

How do you stop a probe traveling at relativistic speeds? The Max Planck Society is on the case.

Could it be that the way to slow down before arriving at a destination Solar_System is to use Solar_Sails to Reflect Light coming from The Destination Solar_System for a Longtime before entering into The Destination Solar_System?