A fusion rocket is a theoretical design for a rocket driven by fusion propulsion that could provide efficient and sustained acceleration in space without...

fission/fusion reaction or to "spike" the propulsion of a fusion rocket or any similar applications. The antiproton-driven Inertial confinement fusion (ICF)...

time fusion research appeared to be making great strides, and in particular, inertial confinement fusion (ICF) appeared to be adaptable as a rocket engine...

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...

Direct Fusion Drive (DFD) is a conceptual, low radioactivity, nuclear-fusion rocket engine, designed to produce both thrust and electric power, suitable...

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....

thermal rocket, the fission fragment rocket, nuclear pulse propulsion, and the possibility of a fusion rocket, assuming that nuclear fusion technology...

interstellar fusion ramjet named after Robert W. Bussard. Fission fragment rocket Fission sail Fusion rocket Gas core reactor rocket Nuclear salt-water rocket Radioisotope...

nuclear pulse propulsion, fission-fragment rocket, fusion rocket, beamed solar sail, and antimatter rocket. The benefit of interstellar travel includes...

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...

vehicles. Fusion rockets, powered by nuclear fusion reactions, would "burn" such light element fuels as deuterium, tritium, or 3He. Because fusion yields...

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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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...

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...

A liquid-propellant rocket or liquid rocket utilizes a rocket engine burning liquid propellants. (Alternate approaches use gaseous or solid propellants...

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...

The nuclear salt-water rocket (NSWR) is a theoretical type of nuclear thermal rocket designed by Robert Zubrin. In place of traditional chemical propellant...

tripropellant rocket is a rocket that uses three propellants, as opposed to the more common bipropellant rocket or monopropellant rocket designs, which...

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...

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...

developed during nuclear fusion research. VASIMR is intended to bridge the gap between high thrust, low specific impulse chemical rockets and low thrust, high...

photon rocket is a rocket that uses thrust from the momentum of emitted photons (radiation pressure by emission) for its propulsion. Photon rockets have...

spacecraft must rely on other methods such as conventional chemical rockets or non-rocket launch technologies to reach their initial orbit. The first person...

Blumenfeld Rocket Science (Tribal Tech album), by the jazz fusion band Tribal Tech Rocket Science (Béla Fleck and the Flecktones album), 2011 Rocket Science...

Enzmann starship Field propulsion Fission sail Ford-Svaiter mirror Fusion rocket Gravity tractor Halo drive Information panspermia Isotropic beacon Krasnikov...

have been performed by either fully or partially expendable multi-stage rockets. The main projected advantage of the SSTO concept is elimination of the...

cycle, preburner cycle, or closed cycle) is a power cycle of a bipropellant rocket engine. In the staged combustion cycle, propellant flows through multiple...

A hybrid-propellant rocket is a rocket with a rocket motor that uses rocket propellants in two different phases: one solid and the other either gas or...

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...