Astar Rocket company run by former astronaut Franklin Chang are devoloping a plasma rocket which could take theoridically take us to mars in 7 to 9 days.
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– March 6, 2010
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dbz kamaha-mayha
you haven’t seen a gravity gradient map have you?
we got the power of magnetic enhanced plasma what does the chimpanzee have? poo tossing. But I haven’t been to space and a chimpanzee has, this sucks!
You are only correct if you are talking about a theoretical vacuum in which nothing exists at all. For the moment you have matter, you have mass. And the moment there is mass there is gravity. So, in theory yes, in the absense of matter there is an absense of palpable gravity. But we can not say that zero gravity exists, because a true vacuum does not exist. In fact, a true vacuum is a lack of existence!
You can go as fast as you want. It’s the de-celleration and trajectory that gets you!! That and don’t forget the suck of gravity from EVERYTHING around you. Go fast get brakes. Great theory lots of math. Love this guy.
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so how fast would this rocket get us to the moon? if it would get us to mars in a month. Also, how long would it take to get up to speed?
yes
what kind of energy to make the plasma….
plasma
What kind of propelant does it use? solar energy?
Actually, there is micro-gravity in space, meaning that there is very little of it, but still some. There is zero gravity in a vacuum.
Dr. Chang is our Costa Rican pride!
I wish I could invest in Dr. Chang’s company, but it is private. His company sees where the future should be going & best wishes to the firm’s upcoming experiment w/ the ISS. If the U.S. is too close minded to utilize such wonderful tech. then maybe the ESA, JAXA, or Costa Ricans Gov’t is!! Near the equator would be a great place for a liftoff & w/ either a private rocket, Russian rocket to get into orbit safely with Costa Rican astronauts (at least), flag, etc. Adelante, Siempre, Adelante!
120,000 miles an hour! Amazing!
I’d love to study this kinda stuff, it’s so cool!
imagine that in 50 years time we will all be able to go to mars on holiday!!awesomeee
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Nope. A flight certified engine will be ready by 2011-2012 for use on the ISS for station keeping. If the money is there, the technology can be scaled up to the proposed 250,000 watt model. This will be the Mars engine. Just go to the site. Great info.
I believe this is incorrect. Spinning increases gravity by multiplying it.,the same as pulling Gs in an airplane. However, you have zero gravity in space meaning you couldn’t multiply it.
Wow nice! I think it will take about 15 to 20 years until we see that one used. Especially the practice testing will be extremely expansive and time consuming because (as they said) this engine just works in space. Wernherr von braun sacrificed dozens of rockets in practice test before actually the first one worked.
I still think it is in the infant stages. I do believe there is a lot of work to be done.
All they giving us is the physic of the rocket but have not execute it practice.
how far off is this technology from being used for a space mission to the moon or mars???
The fuel is argon. The atmospheres of Earth and Mars contain large quantities of argon.
Earth to the Moon space tugs will be solar powered.
thats awesome
of course a such as that spacecraft would need to be an order or two of magnitude larger then our space station, or else you just have a spining ball of vomit.
By spinning the space crafted in perpatual motion. you can simulate gravity.