antimatter rocket

This type of antimatter rocket is a beamed core configuration.

He told her he thought they were riding an antimatter rocket. "

The antimatter rocket could be a kind called a beam-core engine, he speculated.

They were tiny things, thumb-sized antimatter rockets with kilotonne yields.

There is no theoretical barrier to these tasks being performed on the scale required to fuel an antimatter rocket.

It is a variant on the Sänger antimatter rocket.

An antimatter rocket is a proposed class of rockets that use antimatter as their power source.

The chief practical difficulties with antimatter rockets are the problems of creating antimatter and storing it.

Most proposed antimatter rocket designs require a large amount of antimatter (around 10 grams to reach Mars in one month).

Even fusion rockets, even antimatter rockets are wasteful compared to most of the machines in common use. . . to a zapcar, for instance.

Antimatter rocket engines, antigravity, solar sails, hundreds of tether designs, the Forward probes, Orion spacecraft, and a thousand things that didn't work but aren't genetically impossible."

A compact matter/antimatter rocket, it had crossed the eighteen light-years from the New Republic at a sublight crawl, then decelerated into a parking orbit and shut down.

He later proposed a propulsion system for an antimatter rocket (referred to by others as the "Augenstein mirror matter engine") that would have uses not only in space ships, but also on earth.

Long before Duncan and his fusion propulsion drive, which made travel among the planets practical, Forward was examining the possibilities of antimatter rockets and laser propulsion for interstellar travel.

This is high performance, although not that which the technically daunting antimatter rocket could achieve, and the weight of the reactor core and other elements would make the overall performance of the fission-fragment system lower.

A representative from NASA's Innovative Advanced Concepts suggested several theoretical technologies that could make the voyage to Alpha Centauri in a few hundred years, including antimatter rockets and explosive nuclear propulsion.

An RKV could theoretically be launched using any of the spacecraft propulsion techniques that are capable of accelerating starships to relativistic velocities, such as antimatter rockets, Bussard ramjet systems, or nuclear pulse propulsion (see also relativistic rockets).

The advantage to this class of rocket is that a large fraction of the rest mass of a matter/antimatter mixture may be converted to energy, allowing antimatter rockets to have a far higher energy density and specific impulse than any other proposed class of rocket.

Antimatter rockets can be divided into three types: those that directly use the products of antimatter annihilation for propulsion, those that heat a working fluid which is then used for propulsion, and those that heat a working fluid to generate electricity for some form of electric spacecraft propulsion system.