Monday, April 9, 2007
Interstellar Travel
In 1960 Bussard proposed an interstellar vehicle that would collect its fuel from interstellar medium. A large scoop would pick up protons present in space, and the protons would be fed into a fusion reactor where part of their mass would be converted into kinetic energy. How big would the scoop have to be in order to produce a constant 1g acceleration for a 3500-ton vehicle?
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