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    A fusion rocket is a theoretical design for a rocket driven by fusion propulsion that could provide efficient and sustained acceleration in space without...
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    fission/fusion reaction or to "spike" the propulsion of a fusion rocket or any similar applications. The antiproton-driven Inertial confinement fusion (ICF)...
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    time fusion research appeared to be making great strides, and in particular, inertial confinement fusion (ICF) appeared to be adaptable as a rocket engine...
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    field. The Bussard ramjet can thus be seen as a ramjet variant of a fusion rocket.[citation needed] The Bussard ramjet was proposed in 1960 by the physicist...
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    Direct Fusion Drive (DFD) is a conceptual, low radioactivity, nuclear-fusion rocket engine, designed to produce both thrust and electric power, suitable...
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    rocket (NTR) is a type of thermal rocket where the heat from a nuclear reaction replaces the chemical energy of the propellants in a chemical rocket....
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  • thermal rocket, the fission fragment rocket, nuclear pulse propulsion, and the possibility of a fusion rocket, assuming that nuclear fusion technology...
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    nuclear pulse propulsion, fission-fragment rocket, fusion rocket, beamed solar sail, and antimatter rocket. The benefit of interstellar travel includes...
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    interstellar fusion ramjet named after Robert W. Bussard. Fission fragment rocket Fission sail Fusion rocket Gas core reactor rocket Nuclear salt-water rocket Radioisotope...
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  • Pulsar Fusion is a UK-based start-up that has demonstrated two designs of prototype rocket engine. It is headquartered in Bletchley, United Kingdom. Pulsar...
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  • vehicles. Fusion rockets, powered by nuclear fusion reactions, would "burn" such light element fuels as deuterium, tritium, or 3He. Because fusion yields...
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    Alan Bond led a team of scientists and engineers who proposed using a fusion rocket to reach Barnard's Star 5.9 light years away. The trip was estimated...
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    keV. China Fusion Engineering Test Reactor Cold fusion Focus fusion Fusenet Fusion rocket Impulse generator Joint European Torus List of fusion experiments...
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    solid-propellant rocket or solid rocket is a rocket with a rocket engine that uses solid propellants (fuel/oxidizer). The earliest rockets were solid-fuel rockets powered...
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    Ramjet (redirect from Rocket-ramjet)
    field. The Bussard ramjet can thus be seen as a ramjet variant of a fusion rocket.[citation needed] An afterburning turbojet or bypass engine can be described...
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    A liquid-propellant rocket or liquid rocket utilizes a rocket engine burning liquid propellants. (Alternate approaches use gaseous or solid propellants...
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    A rocket engine uses stored rocket propellants as the reaction mass for forming a high-speed propulsive jet of fluid, usually high-temperature gas. Rocket...
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  • The nuclear salt-water rocket (NSWR) is a theoretical type of nuclear thermal rocket designed by Robert Zubrin. In place of traditional chemical propellant...
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  • tripropellant rocket is a rocket that uses three propellants, as opposed to the more common bipropellant rocket or monopropellant rocket designs, which...
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    if 100% of the input microwave power were converted to thrust. Ad Astra Rocket Company is developing the VASIMR. Canadian company Nautel is producing the...
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  • a type of rocket engine which uses the expansion of a (typically inert) pressurized gas to generate thrust. As opposed to traditional rocket engines, a...
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  • developed during nuclear fusion research. VASIMR is intended to bridge the gap between high thrust, low specific impulse chemical rockets and low thrust, high...
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  • Blumenfeld Rocket Science (Tribal Tech album), by the jazz fusion band Tribal Tech Rocket Science (Béla Fleck and the Flecktones album), 2011 Rocket Science...
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  • photon rocket is a rocket that uses thrust from the momentum of emitted photons (radiation pressure by emission) for its propulsion. Photon rockets have...
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    Ion thruster (redirect from Ion rocket)
    spacecraft must rely on other methods such as conventional chemical rockets or non-rocket launch technologies to reach their initial orbit. The first person...
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  • Enzmann starship Field propulsion Fission sail Ford-Svaiter mirror Fusion rocket Gravity tractor Halo drive Information panspermia Isotropic beacon Krasnikov...
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    have been performed by either fully or partially expendable multi-stage rockets. The main projected advantage of the SSTO concept is elimination of the...
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    Enzmann. A three million ton ball of frozen deuterium would fuel nuclear fusion rocket engines contained in a cylindrical section behind that ball with the...
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  • photon rocket at nearly 10−5 m/s² (10−6g; see g-force). This could perhaps provide interplanetary spaceflight capability from Earth orbit. Nuclear fusion reactors...
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  • Fusion engine may refer to: Fusion engine, an engine that runs on fusion power, generally referring to a fusion rocket. Fusion Engine, the game engine...
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