Fastest Methods of Space Travel | Part one
Today I'm going to talk about the best ways in theory to travel in space.
Solar Sail
If you are wondering how would a sail work in space, there is no wind.
In space there might be no wind, but there a constant waves of particles shooting past.
A Solar Sail works with Radiation pressure.
When light hits a reflective surface it reflects, but the reflective object such as a mirror is pushed backwards ever so slightly, like if you throw a ball at a car on ice, it is moved very slightly, but non the less it still moves.
The IKAROS, a very thin sail measuring 7.4 micrometers thick, 14 by 14 square meters.
IKAROS was lunched at Venus in May 2010.
In 6 months it had reached Venus.
Ion Thruster's
Ion's or atoms, are Negative or positive, because unlike an atom an Ion doesn't have the same amount a protons as it as electrons.
Most Ion thruster's use Ion's to hit the fuel, knocking around even more Ion's and creating what is known as a plasma thruster.
At the moment they are very weak, so we are nowhere near being able to use them.
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I love this topic as it will be VERY important to future generations. I love the solar sail story, but I guess a major limitation would be all the debris floating around out there which would seem to destroy the integrity of the sail.
Thank you, it's a very interesting topic
Nice.
Thank you.
Found it interesting
Very interessting thank you
Thank you, and thank you for the support.
very interesting!
know some people who actually work with these kind of thrusters.
if you want to know more about the technology and history start at
https://www.uni-giessen.de/faculties/f07/physics/departments/ipi/institute/research/radiofrequency-ion-thrusters
Thank you for the comment, Hoping one day i can work with theses type's of thing.
Good read. You should do one on hypotherical technologies like Albecurie and EM.
sick article thanks