"Sub-Light Starship Propulsion" Topic

"Since the 1972 Apollo 17 lunar mission, humanity has not ventured more than 400 miles away from Terra…all of the promise made to my generation about Martian colonies have been broken and the human species lingers in the shallow end of deep space. When (or if) we spread out to the stars, armed conflicts will break out over resources or just ownership of the planets themselves, and thus soldiers will need to be transported to these very distant shores to protect their government's interstellar interests.The far-future armed forces, like today's military organizations, will regard getting to the battlefield has half the battle. The primary mission of Future War Stories is to be a resource for military science fiction authors and creators, and here is the best list I could assembly on the various sub-light hard science starship propulsion. This is not meant to be an exhaustive scientific article, but more a highlight list. The genesis of this blogpost, which has been in the draft pile since day one of FWS, came when I read this month's National Geographic, and I thought it was high time to dive into starship propulsion. FWS will be writing the second part of this, FTL propulsion systems, in the next few months. That one will be fun…I think. One thing to consider before reading this list, acceleration must be matched at the end of the journey in de-acceleration, adding to the amount of propellant carried onboard. Also, acceleration needs to be at around 1G for the crew NOT to be transformed into chucky salsa, causing the acceleration time-table to be greater than an umanned interstellar probe, which could travel at 12G.

MPD thrusters are, according to NASA, the most powerful form of electromagnetic propulsion that uses charged particles from ionized gas fuel, such as xenon, neon, and lithium, are pumped into an acceleration chamber, and expelled as thrust via a nozzle. NASA's official work on the top speed of MPD thrusters is about 200,000 MPH…"

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And in this article – he misinterprets many different names/acronyms of various drives, and messes up his descriptions over and over. Not to mention the "English as she is spoke" aspects of it…

Glup!….

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