• Antimatter-catalyzed nuclear pulse propulsion (also antiproton-catalyzed nuclear pulse propulsion) is a variation of nuclear pulse propulsion based upon...
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    Nuclear pulse propulsion or external pulsed plasma propulsion is a hypothetical method of spacecraft propulsion that uses nuclear explosions for thrust...
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    used the antimatter-catalyzed nuclear pulse propulsion engine as its main form of propulsion External Pulsed Plasma Propulsion (EPPP), a propulsion concept...
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    AIMStar Antimatter-catalyzed nuclear pulse propulsion Helios (propulsion system) NERVA (Nuclear Engine for Rocket Vehicle Application) Nuclear propulsion Project...
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    concerns about antimatter bombs in 2008 as "unrealistic". Antimatter-catalyzed nuclear pulse propulsion proposes the use of antimatter as a "trigger"...
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    still more speculative concept is antimatter-catalyzed nuclear pulse propulsion, which would use antimatter to catalyze a fission and fusion reaction, allowing...
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    stored antimatter could be used as a fuel for interplanetary or interstellar travel as part of an antimatter-catalyzed nuclear pulse propulsion or another...
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    propellant. Then there are hybrid solutions using antimatter to catalyze fission/fusion reactions for propulsion. Antiproton annihilation reactions produce charged...
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  • Pure fusion weapon (category Nuclear fusion)
    the use of antimatter as an alternative fusion trigger, mainly in the context of antimatter-catalyzed nuclear pulse propulsion but also nuclear weapons....
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    Nuclear propulsion methods include: Fission-fragment rockets Fission sails Fusion rockets Nuclear thermal rockets (NTR) Nuclear pulse propulsion Nuclear salt-water...
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    nuclear weapon design is related to, and relies upon, the same principle as antimatter-catalyzed nuclear pulse propulsion. Most variation in nuclear weapon...
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    interstellar propulsion systems include nuclear pulse propulsion, fission-fragment rocket, fusion rocket, beamed solar sail, and antimatter rocket. The...
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    NERVA – US Nuclear thermal rocket engine project (1956–1973) Nuclear electric rocket Nuclear pulse propulsion Project Pluto – US nuclear ramjet project...
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  • A nuclear electric rocket (more properly nuclear electric propulsion) is a type of spacecraft propulsion system where thermal energy from a nuclear reactor...
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    spacecraft propulsion List of spacecraft with electric propulsion Nano-particle field extraction thruster Nuclear electric rocket Nuclear pulse propulsion Plasma...
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    Spacecraft electric propulsion (or just electric propulsion) is a type of spacecraft propulsion technique that uses electrostatic or electromagnetic fields...
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    speed. AIMStar (1990s-2000s) AIMStar was a proposed antimatter catalyzed nuclear pulse propulsion craft that would use clouds of antiprotons to initiate...
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    This possibility as a method of spacecraft propulsion, known as antimatter-catalyzed nuclear pulse propulsion, was investigated at Pennsylvania State University...
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  • L. Forward pioneered interstellar propulsion concepts including photon propulsion and antimatter rocket propulsion. However, BLP is limited because of...
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  • AIMStar (category Nuclear spacecraft propulsion)
    AIMStar was a proposed antimatter-catalyzed nuclear pulse propulsion craft that uses clouds of antiprotons to initiate fission and fusion within fuel...
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    inert propellant, heated by electricity (electrothermal propulsion) or a nuclear reactor (nuclear thermal rocket). Chemical rockets are powered by exothermic...
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    original on 2017-08-08. Retrieved 2017-07-29. "Antimatter to ion drives: NASA's plans for deep space propulsion". Cosmos Magazine. Retrieved 2017-07-29. "Rocket...
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    potentially be used in Hybrid Nuclear Fusion designs to produce electric power. Antimatter catalyzed nuclear pulse propulsion Bubble fusion, a phenomenon...
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    explosion. This has been studied primarily in the context of making nuclear pulse propulsion, and pure fusion bombs feasible. This is not near becoming a practical...
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  • propulsion nozzle at a very high speed, creating thrust. In a nuclear thermal rocket (NTR), thrust is created by heating a fluid by using a nuclear fission...
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  • spacecraft propulsion. PPTs are generally considered the simplest form of electric spacecraft propulsion and were the first form of electric propulsion to be...
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    A nuclear lightbulb is a hypothetical type of spacecraft engine using a gaseous fission reactor to achieve nuclear propulsion. Specifically it would be...
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  • Beam-powered propulsion, also known as directed energy propulsion, is a class of aircraft or spacecraft propulsion that uses energy beamed to the spacecraft...
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  • infeasible reactionless drives are a staple of science fiction for space propulsion. Through the years there have been numerous claims for functional reactionless...
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    A pulsed inductive thruster (PIT) is a form of ion thruster, used in spacecraft propulsion. It is a plasma propulsion engine using perpendicular electric...
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