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    An antimatter rocket is a proposed class of rockets that use antimatter as their power source. There are several designs that attempt to accomplish this...
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    In modern physics, antimatter is defined as matter composed of the antiparticles (or "partners") of the corresponding particles in "ordinary" matter, and...
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  • Antimatter-catalyzed nuclear pulse propulsion (also antiproton-catalyzed nuclear pulse propulsion) is a variation of nuclear pulse propulsion based upon...
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    An antimatter weapon is a theoretically possible device using antimatter as a power source, a propellant, or an explosive for a weapon. Antimatter weapons...
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  • v} of a multistage rocket. It is clear from the above calculations that a relativistic rocket would likely need to be antimatter-fired.[original research...
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  • An antimatter-matter powered photon rocket would (disregarding the shielding) obtain the maximum c specific impulse; for this reason, an antimatter-matter...
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    nuclear pulse propulsion, fission-fragment rocket, fusion rocket, beamed solar sail, and antimatter rocket. The benefits of interstellar travel include...
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    effective fusion rocket. A still more speculative concept is antimatter-catalyzed nuclear pulse propulsion, which would use antimatter to catalyze a fission...
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    A rocket engine uses stored rocket propellants as the reaction mass for forming a high-speed propulsive jet of fluid, usually high-temperature gas. Rocket...
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    AIMStar Antimatter-catalyzed nuclear pulse propulsion Antimatter rocket Spacecraft electric propulsion Ion thruster Nuclear electric rocket Nuclear power...
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  • reactor Very-high-temperature reactor Alderson disk Alcubierre drive Antimatter rocket Artificial universe Asteroid laser ablation Beam powered propulsion...
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    have simple reliable chemical thrusters (often monopropellant rockets) or resistojet rockets for orbital station-keeping, while a few use momentum wheels...
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  • in Space by Gerard O'Neill Engines of Creation by K. Eric Drexler Antimatter rocket Asteroid mining Beam-powered propulsion Closed Ecological Life Support...
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  • Project Valkyrie (category Antimatter)
    movie Avatar. Project Prometheus Project Longshot "Valkyrie Antimatter Starship". Atomic Rockets: Slower Than Light. 19 December 2009. Archived from the original...
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    A liquid-propellant rocket or liquid rocket uses a rocket engine burning liquid propellants. (Alternate approaches use gaseous or solid propellants.)...
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  • Angle of attack — Angular momentum — Angular velocity — Antimatter rocket — Apsis — Arcjet rocket — Areal velocity — ARP4761 — Aspect ratio (wing) — Astrodynamics...
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  • Travel" Gregory L. Matloff, Less Johnson, February 2005 How to Build an Antimatter Rocket for Interstellar Missions: Systems level Considerations in Designing...
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  • The nuclear salt-water rocket (NSWR) is a theoretical type of nuclear thermal rocket designed by Robert Zubrin. In place of traditional chemical propellant...
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  • The Variable Specific Impulse Magnetoplasma Rocket (VASIMR) is an electrothermal thruster under development for possible use in spacecraft propulsion....
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  • A monopropellant rocket (or "monochemical rocket") is a rocket that uses a single chemical as its propellant. Monopropellant rockets are commonly used...
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    solid-propellant rocket or solid rocket is a rocket with a rocket engine that uses solid propellants (fuel/oxidizer). The earliest rockets were solid-fuel rockets powered...
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  • The fission-fragment rocket is a rocket engine design that directly harnesses hot nuclear fission products for thrust, as opposed to using a separate fluid...
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    Jackson, A. (1980). "Some Considerations on the Antimatter and Fusion Ram Augmented Interstellar Rocket". Journal of the British Interplanetary Society...
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    rocket (NTR) is a type of thermal rocket where the heat from a nuclear reaction replaces the chemical energy of the propellants in a chemical rocket....
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  • craft has been inserted into orbit. Most satellites use monopropellant rocket motors or cold gas thrusters for such orbital adjustments. Both methods...
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    Society study of a fusion rocket Project Longshot, US Naval Academy-NASA nuclear pulse propulsion design AIMStar, a proposed Antimatter-catalyzed nuclear pulse...
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    Retrieved 2017-07-29. "Antimatter to ion drives: NASA's plans for deep space propulsion". Cosmos Magazine. Retrieved 2017-07-29. "Rocket Aims For Cheaper Nudges...
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  • A radioisotope rocket or radioisotope thermal rocket is a type of thermal rocket engine that uses the heat generated by the decay of radioactive elements...
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  • a type of rocket engine which uses the expansion of a (typically inert) pressurized gas to generate thrust. As opposed to traditional rocket engines, a...
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    A hybrid-propellant rocket is a rocket with a rocket motor that uses rocket propellants in two different phases: one solid and the other either gas or...
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