Space
Travel
Space
Travel has been NASA’S major concerns and it’s the biggest challenge they ever
faced. It is only the future that holds any hope of seeing major space travels
to unimaginable distances. My idea is to only look at existing ideas and
theories and interpret new ideas and theories that could actually happen fifty
to sixty years from now in space travel. It’s to find different methods and
using them in different ways to make travelling in space faster and more
efficient.
Gravity
Sling Shot
The Invention of Michael Minovitch’s theory of Gravity
Propelled Interplanetary Space Travel was so radical it did not require and
rocket fuel or any on-board energy generating system, but was capable of
generating vehicle velocities for greater than the most advanced nuclear
propulsion system, and was independent of the vehicle’s mass.
Gravitational slingshot is the use of the relative movement
and gravity of a planet to alter the path and speed of a spacecraft, typically
in order to save propellant, time, and expense. Gravity assistance can be used
to accelerate, decelerate and/or re-direct the path of a spacecraft.
A gravitational slingshot is a slick way to pick up speed
using a moving planet’s gravity.
Using a
planet as large as Jupiter can send a ship at half the speed of light.
Light
Speed Neutrinos Particles
Antonio
Ereditato, the leader of Neutrinos research team discovered that Neutrinos are
charged particles that move faster than light. These are little disc like
particles which when spun around really fast gets charged and runs at light
speed at any direction it is lead to.
Neutrinos
are particles that escaped from the sun and are buried underground on Earth.
Space
Elevator
Space elevator Technology was
invented by Arthur C. Clarke. Its name pretty much
explains how it works. A cable is strung between a launch point and a
geostationary satellite in orbit, dangling all the way up from the ground
through the atmosphere into space. Elevator cars will then ride up and down the
cable, powered by ground-fired laser beams, and ferrying equipment and
personnel into space without all the expense, fuss and risk of a rocket launch.
When they become technically feasible, they'll make access to space about as
simple and easy a task as driving a car, and they'll drop the costs of
launching satellites by an extraordinary amount--completely transforming how we
think about space travel.
Ion Propulsion
Rocket designers have been studying ion propulsion
since the 1950s, and mention of the technology often turns up in works of
science fiction.
Deep Space 1 is the first spacecraft to use it as a
primary means of propulsion.
Instead of the fiery thrust produced by typical
rockets, an ion engine emits only an eerie blue glow as electrically charged
atoms of xenon are pushed out of the engine. Xenon is the same gas found in
photo flash bulbs and lighthouse search lamps. Acceleration with patience In
the engine, each xenon atom is stripped of an electron, leaving an electrically
charged particle called an ion. Those ions are then jolted by electricity that
is produced by the probe's solar panels and accelerated at high speeds as they
shoot out from the engine. That produces thrust for the probe. The ions travel
out into space at 68,000 miles (109,430 kilometers) per hour.
The thrust itself is amazingly light -- about the
force felt by a sheet of paper on the palm of your hand.
It takes a while for it to accelerate so hence it's acceleration with
patience.
But once ion propulsion gets going, nothing compares to its
acceleration. Over the long haul, it can deliver 10 times as much
thrust-per-pound of fuel as more traditional rockets.
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