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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Laser propulsion is a form of beam-powered propulsion where the energy source is a remote (usually ground-based) laser system and separate from the reaction...
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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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Lightcraft (category Spacecraft propulsion)
Lightcraft is a space- or air-vehicle driven by beam-powered propulsion, the energy source powering the craft being external. It was conceptualized by...
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ram accelerator) (a chemically powered gun) Beam-powered propulsion rockets and jets powered from the ground via a beam High-altitude platforms to assist...
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Ion thruster (redirect from Xenon Ion Propulsion System)
electric propulsion specialists, under the support of the Ballistic Missile Defense Organization, visited Soviet laboratories. Ion thrusters use beams of ions...
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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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Reactionless drive (redirect from Inertial propulsion engine)
deformation cycle would be far too small to detect. Beam-powered propulsion Bernard Haisch Field propulsion Harold E. Puthoff Inertialess drive Perpetual motion...
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Single-stage-to-orbit (category Rocket propulsion)
air-breathing scramjet-powered vehicles that are launched and land horizontally, nuclear-powered vehicles, and even jet-engine-powered vehicles that can fly...
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Fusion rocket (redirect from Helium-3 propulsion)
uses electrical (e.g. ion) propulsion with electric power generated by fusion instead of direct thrust. Spacecraft propulsion methods such as ion thrusters...
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