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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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...
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Jordin Kare (section Laser propulsion)
July 19, 2017) was a physicist and aerospace engineer who researched laser propulsion. He was responsible for Mockingbird, a conceptual design for an extremely...
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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...
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Lightcraft (category Spacecraft propulsion)
pressure alone. Within the atmosphere, the Lightcraft propulsion is dependent on the external laser power only, so propulsive power is not limited to that...
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outer solar system, including plasma propulsion, laser propulsion, nuclear propulsion, solar sail and field propulsion systems which utilize a strain on...
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Interstellar travel (redirect from Interstellar propulsion)
papers and conducting early studies on applying fusion propulsion, in the 1960s, and laser propulsion, in the 1970s, to interstellar travel. In 1994, NASA...
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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...
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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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Photon rocket (category Rocket propulsion)
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...
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Solar sail (redirect from Light propulsion)
spacecraft propulsion using radiation pressure exerted by sunlight on large surfaces. A number of spaceflight missions to test solar propulsion and navigation...
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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...
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Antimatter rocket (redirect from Antimatter propulsion)
(21 August 2012). "Matter–antimatter gigaelectron volt gamma ray laser rocket propulsion". Acta Astronautica. 81 (1): 34–39. Bibcode:2012AcAau..81...34W...
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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...
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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...
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Magnetohydrodynamic drive (redirect from MagnetoHydroDynamic propulsion)
(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):...
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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...
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Peaceful nuclear explosion (section Propulsion use)
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...
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Psyche (spacecraft) (category Laser communication in space)
thrusters for propulsion and orbital maneuvering, the first interplanetary spacecraft to use that technology. It's also the first mission to use laser optical...
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Ion thruster (redirect from Xenon Ion Propulsion System)
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...
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Alcubierre drive Antimatter rocket Artificial universe Asteroid laser ablation Beam powered propulsion Bernal sphere Bias drive Bishop ring Black hole starship...
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Projectile launchers Reaction drives Air launch Spaceplanes Laser propulsion Beam-powered propulsion Buoyant lifting Balloon Buoyant space port High-altitude...
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gamma-ray lasers include medical imaging, spacecraft propulsion, and cancer treatment. In his 2003 Nobel lecture, Vitaly Ginzburg cited the gamma-ray laser as...
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Railgun (category Spacecraft propulsion)
foreseeable future. Any trade-off analysis between electromagnetic (EM) propulsion systems and chemical propellants for weapons applications must also factor...
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Reaction engine (redirect from Reactive propulsion)
current power sources. Alternative approaches include some forms of laser propulsion, where the reaction mass does not provide the energy required to accelerate...
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Spacecraft propulsion is any method used to accelerate spacecraft and artificial satellites. In-space propulsion exclusively deals with propulsion systems...
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Tractor beam (category Laser applications)
Clifford Schlecht researched a form of reversed-thrust laser propulsion as a macroscopic laser tractor beam. Intended applications include remotely manipulating...
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Chandrayaan-3 (section Propulsion module)
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...
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Fusion rocket (redirect from Helium-3 propulsion)
A fusion rocket is a theoretical design for a rocket driven by fusion propulsion that could provide efficient and sustained acceleration in space without...
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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...
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