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...

heavy. Beamed propulsion in the form of a laser can send power to a photovoltaic panel for Laser electric propulsion. In this system, if a high intensity is...

July 19, 2017) was a physicist and aerospace engineer who researched laser propulsion. He was responsible for Mockingbird, a conceptual design for an extremely...

pumped lasers and it remains on the cutting edge of the field. At least three uses for bomb pumped lasers have been proposed. Laser propulsion is an alternative...

pressure alone. Within the atmosphere, the Lightcraft propulsion is dependent on the external laser power only, so propulsive power is not limited to that...

outer solar system, including plasma propulsion, laser propulsion, nuclear propulsion, solar sail and field propulsion systems which utilize a strain on...

papers and conducting early studies on applying fusion propulsion, in the 1960s, and laser propulsion, in the 1970s, to interstellar travel. In 1994, NASA...

mechanism for a laser weapon. It is also the basis of pulsed laser propulsion for spacecraft. Processes are currently being developed to use laser ablation in...

Spacecraft electric propulsion (or just electric propulsion) is a type of spacecraft propulsion technique that uses electrostatic or electromagnetic fields...

long as the reaction mass is not carried by the spacecraft. In Beamed Laser Propulsion (BLP), the photon generators and the spacecraft are physically separated...

spacecraft propulsion using radiation pressure exerted by sunlight on large surfaces. A number of spaceflight missions to test solar propulsion and navigation...

to Earth; since they lack fuel to decelerate, they must rely on the laser propulsion system that originally launched them from the Solar System to slow...

(21 August 2012). "Matter–antimatter gigaelectron volt gamma ray laser rocket propulsion". Acta Astronautica. 81 (1): 34–39. Bibcode:2012AcAau..81...34W...

soft x-ray laser can perform ablative laser propulsion. European x-ray free electron laser Industrial CT scanning LCLS X-ray Free Electron Laser at SLAC...

A laser broom is a proposed ground-based laser beam-powered propulsion system that sweeps space debris out of the path of artificial satellites (such as...

(PDF). Science & Vie (683): 68–73. Myrabo, L.N. (1976). "MHD propulsion by absorption of laser radiation" (PDF). Journal of Spacecraft and Rockets. 13 (8):...

high-power lasers. He first suggested a system of laser propulsion to launch bulk payloads into orbit, using energy from ground-based lasers to increase...

powered pulsed laser test-bed, successfully lifted a lightcraft 72 meters in altitude by a method similar to ablative laser propulsion in 2000. A powerful...

thrusters for propulsion and orbital maneuvering, the first interplanetary spacecraft to use that technology. It's also the first mission to use laser optical...

thruster, ion drive, or ion engine is a form of electric propulsion used for spacecraft propulsion. An ion thruster creates a cloud of positive ions from...

Alcubierre drive Antimatter rocket Artificial universe Asteroid laser ablation Beam powered propulsion Bernal sphere Bias drive Bishop ring Black hole starship...

Projectile launchers Reaction drives Air launch Spaceplanes Laser propulsion Beam-powered propulsion Buoyant lifting Balloon Buoyant space port High-altitude...

gamma-ray lasers include medical imaging, spacecraft propulsion, and cancer treatment. In his 2003 Nobel lecture, Vitaly Ginzburg cited the gamma-ray laser as...

foreseeable future. Any trade-off analysis between electromagnetic (EM) propulsion systems and chemical propellants for weapons applications must also factor...

current power sources. Alternative approaches include some forms of laser propulsion, where the reaction mass does not provide the energy required to accelerate...

Spacecraft propulsion is any method used to accelerate spacecraft and artificial satellites. In-space propulsion exclusively deals with propulsion systems...

Clifford Schlecht researched a form of reversed-thrust laser propulsion as a macroscopic laser tractor beam. Intended applications include remotely manipulating...

ISRO's own tracking stations. For the first time on the lunar surface, a laser beam from NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter was broadcast on 12 December...

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

which the film was based Lightcraft, a space- or air-vehicle driven by laser propulsion Light displacement, a displacement figure that measures a ship complete...