Electromagnetic Propulsion
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Electromagnetic Propulsion
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 Research Cost: 1500
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| Physicists design rockets that use electromagnetic fields to accelerate propellant. | ||||||||||||
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| Classic rockets throw a volatile mix of chemicals together and ride the reaction through space, an effective but inefficient and risky system of propulsion. But we have other forces at our disposal, and it is to electromagnetism that we now look instead. We propose to use this force to accelerate ions - or potentially larger masses - to generate thrust. Ultimately these systems can provide an extremely efficient form of travel, preventing the need for vast sums of propellant and tankage, but at a cost of the high thrust available to chemical rockets. These systems offer the potential to put the near planets and asteroids within reach. | ||||||||||||
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| Fission Pulse Drives • High-Energy Electromagnetic Propulsion | (50%)Pulsed Plasmoid Drive • (100%)Mass Driver • (20%)Plasma Wave Drive • (100%)VASIMR | |||||||||||
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| "Science would tell us that we are nothing more than vibrating atoms. 'Everything in life is vibration,' as Einstein put it. I put it to you that he was a duplicitous charlatan." Superior Judith Howell, The Servants Eternal Source introductory video | ||||||||||||
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