Magnetic Nozzles
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Magnetic Nozzles
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 Research Cost: 50000
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| Using shaped magnetic fields as rocket nozzles will unlock a new generation of high-power drives. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| A magnetic nozzle serves the same purpose as a solid nozzle, which is to say it ejects a plasma jet into the vacuum of space in order to achieve propulsion. However, it achieves this contactlessly, and thus avoids the inefficiency and system damage inherent to forcing hot, high-pressure plasma along the walls of a solid nozzle. This new form of nozzle operates by using electromagnetic fields to magnetize the electrons within the plasma, confining their expansion while guiding them downstream, where ultimately their internal energy is efficiently converted into directed kinetic energy. All of this has for some time been feasible to a limited degree in the lab, but it is only now, thanks to our remarkable breakthroughs in electromagnetics, that we can now make magnetic nozzles feasible within the confines of a spacecraft. Thanks to their dramatically increased thrust, efficiency, longevity, and low mass, new and far more powerful types of drives and reactors can become a reality. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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3750 | Total | 158250 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Antimatter Propulsion | (75%)Helion Plasmajet Lantern • (100%)Deuteron Torus Drive • (50%)Zeta Deuteron Torch • (100%)Antimatter Pulsed Plasma Core Lantern • (100%)Deuteron Nova Lantern • (20%)Poseidon Torch • (100%)Helion Reflex Drive • (100%)Deuteron Reflex Drive • (50%)Protium Fusor Drive • (20%)Dusty Plasma Drive • (50%)Protium Nova Torch • (50%)Helion Nova Torch • (100%)Triton Polywell Drive • (75%)Zeta Helion Lantern • (75%)Helion Torus Lantern • (100%)Zeta Borane Lantern • (100%)Pion Torch • (75%)Borane Nova Lantern • (50%)Borane Plasmajet Torch • (100%)Triton Fusor Drive • (100%)Triton Reflex Drive • (100%)Zeta Deuteron Drive • (75%)Helion Nova Lantern • (50%)Protium Torus Lantern • (100%)Triton Nova Drive • (100%)Deuteron Fusor Drive • (100%)Triton Torus Drive • (100%)Zeta Triton Drive • (100%)Deuteron Polywell Drive | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| "Our atoms do not truly touch one another. Like the clouds in the sky, they have no hard boundaries. All they can do is move close enough to influence each other." Chancellor Li Qingzhao, The Academy From a guest lecture at the University of Cambridge | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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