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The ENGINE: an important part of your technical journey and experience in space. Now capable of achieving unbelievably high speed
The ENGINE: an important part of your technical journey and experience in space. Now capable of achieving unbelievably high speed
Until 2019, the fastest mode for inter-stellar travel was the traditional rocket fuel that was highly inefficient. By then, the fastest spacecraft was Apollo 10, which could go 25,000 mph. To illustrate, a trip to our nearest star, Alpha Centauri (at a distance of 4.73 light years), would take approximately 120,000 years.
The Tsiolkovsky rocket equation is as follows:
In common terms, it suggests that the maximum Velocity of a spacecraft is dependent on the following aspects:
-Exhaustion Velocity
-Fuel mass
-Spacecraft mass
Therefore, there are two (currently) possible ways of achieving high speeds:
-By propelling a lot of mass backwards, or
-Propelling less mass at much higher speeds
Our team of scientists, in 2020, decided to pursue the latter option, which caused a breakthrough in modern physics and in the department of interstellar travel.
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