provide long range, high capacity commercial transportation. The aircraft was designed, as part of the European Union-funded Long-Term Advanced Propulsion Concepts...
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LAPCAT (Long-Term Advanced Propulsion Concepts and Technologies) was a 36-month European FP6 study to examine ways to produce engines for a Mach number...
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The NASA Institute for Advanced Concepts (NIAC) is a NASA program for development of far reaching, long term advanced concepts by "creating breakthroughs...
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Field propulsion is the concept of spacecraft propulsion where no propellant is necessary but instead momentum of the spacecraft is changed by an interaction...
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exploration to space stations and human missions to Mars. Hypothetical in-space propulsion technologies describe the propulsion technologies that could meet future...
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Interstellar travel (redirect from Interstellar propulsion)
concepts have been proposed that might be eventually developed to accomplish this (see § Propulsion below), but none of them are ready for near-term (few...
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emerging technologies including advanced alloys and composite material, advanced avionics and fly-by-wire flight control systems, higher power propulsion systems...
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propulsion system as a means of accomplishing high delta-V missions such as an interstellar precursor mission in a NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts project...
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develop key technologies that would provide the Air Force with air dominance. These technologies revolve around several areas such as propulsion, stealth...
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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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Hypothetical technology is technology that does not exist yet, but that could exist in the future. This article presents examples of technologies that have...
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pulse propulsion to maximize survivable power has remained common among serious concepts for interstellar flight without external power beaming and for...
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present. Nevertheless, many of the technologies depicted by Star Wars parallel modern real-life technologies and concepts, though some have significant differences...
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Non-rocket spacelaunch (redirect from Rotovator (tether propulsion))
to theoretical concepts for launch into space where much of the speed and altitude needed to achieve orbit is provided by a propulsion technique that...
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CAPSTONE (redirect from Advanced Space)
Systems, Irvine, California, developed and built the spacecraft bus, and Stellar Exploration, Inc developed its propulsion systems that used Hydrazine. NASA...
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Demonstration Rocket for Agile Cislunar Operations (category Nuclear spacecraft propulsion)
Engineering, and Medicine, at the request of NASA, convened an ad hoc Space Nuclear Propulsion Technologies Committee to identify primary technical and programmatic...
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Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) is a Federally Funded Research and Development Center (FFRDC) in La Cañada Flintridge, California, Crescenta Valley, United...
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Antimatter rocket (redirect from Antimatter propulsion)
generate electricity for some form of electric spacecraft propulsion system. The propulsion concepts that employ these mechanisms generally fall into four...
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Solar sail (redirect from Light propulsion)
missions to test solar propulsion and navigation have been proposed since the 1980s. The first spacecraft to make use of the technology was IKAROS, launched...
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F/A-XX program (section Propulsion)
warfare, and close air support. Platform requirements include supercruise capabilities as well as advanced next-generation stealth features, sensors and radars...
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scientific study examining advanced spacecraft propulsion systems. A common science-fiction device is to posit a faster-than-light propulsion system (such as warp...
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Supernal Jaunt Air Mobility BETA Technologies Note: For an in-depth look at various VTOL aircraft power sources, propulsion, and flight controls, See Urban...
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Asteroid Redirect Mission (redirect from Asteroid Retrieval and Utilization)
the performance of advanced solar electric propulsion (ion engines) and broad-band laser communication in space. These new technologies would help send the...
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Interplanetary spaceflight (redirect from Interplanetary propulsion)
See the spacecraft propulsion article for a discussion of a number of other technologies that could, in the medium to longer term, be the basis of interplanetary...
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Fuel economy in aircraft (category Aviation and the environment)
"Review of Propulsion Technologies for N+3 Subsonic Vehicle Concepts" (PDF). Glenn Research Center, Cleveland, Ohio. NASA. "Air Transport and Energy Efficiency"...
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development of commercial crew transportation technologies. The program funded bids to develop specific technologies with awards when milestones were achieved...
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long-term survival of human civilisation. The programme begins with an interview with Dr Dario Izzo of the European Space Agency's Advanced Concepts Team...
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medium and long term (typically 10 – 20 years). This would include how emerging technologies, systems and methods may affect tactical concepts and doctrines...
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Shuttle. The Soviet Union developed vital technologies involving long-term human life in free-fall on the Salyut and later Mir space stations. The 1970s witnessed...
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Space travel in science fiction (redirect from Quantum slipstream technology)
Works related to space travel have popularized such concepts as time dilation, space stations, and space colonization.: 69–80 : 743 While generally associated...
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