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This NASA-Funded Pulsed Plasma Propulsion System Could Carry Humans to Mars In Just Two Months
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| May 21, 2024
| Micah Hanks
Posted on 05/21/2024 11:37:55 AM PDT by Red Badger
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To: zeestephen
How long does it take to slow down to orbital speed? If they use the same propulsion system they would have turn turn the vehicle around about halfway.
Unless they are going to use air-braking at Mars. Is there enough atmosphere to do that at that mass and speed?
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posted on
05/21/2024 12:21:04 PM PDT
by
TangoLimaSierra
(⭐⭐To the Left, The Truth is Right Wing Violence⭐⭐)
To: Red Badger
So, to reach halfway to Mars in 30 days, you would need to travel at approximately 8.4 million miles per hour.
the other 30 days will be needed to slow down. Hmmmmmm
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posted on
05/21/2024 12:25:57 PM PDT
by
The Louiswu
(Pray for Peace in the world.)
To: The Louiswu
Just turn it around....................
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posted on
05/21/2024 12:26:29 PM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
To: TangoLimaSierra
Mars atmosphere has less than 1% the density of Earth atmosphere.
As much as I love the film The Martian (Matt Damon), the raging Martian dust storm that sets up the entire story line lacks the density to blow around large objects or blow over a space craft.
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posted on
05/21/2024 12:40:30 PM PDT
by
zeestephen
(Trump "Lost" By 43,000 Votes - Spread Across Three States - GA, WI, AZ)
To: Red Badger
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posted on
05/21/2024 12:51:04 PM PDT
by
sauropod
("This is a time when people reveal themselves for who they are." James O'Keefe Ne supra crepidam)
To: Red Badger
Re: "Max speed"
You misunderstand.
What is the max speed achieved by the space craft after acceleration stops?
Typical Mars-Earth transit - 12 months
New transit - 2 months
Probably LESS than 6X times usual speed.
Probably flies a much straighter line towards Mars, which would cut down the distance, which would reduce travel time.
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posted on
05/21/2024 12:54:02 PM PDT
by
zeestephen
(Trump "Lost" By 43,000 Votes - Spread Across Three States - GA, WI, AZ)
To: Red Badger
“boasting potential distances of up to 550 astronomical units (roughly 51126 miles,
or 82,280 kilometers)”
An astronomical unit is 92 million miles.
Where did they get those figures?
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posted on
05/21/2024 12:58:08 PM PDT
by
Fungi
To: Red Badger
5000 seconds is specific impulse (exit velocity divided by 32.174 ft/s^2), not burn time.
To: zeestephen
![](https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQC3sCUQ6GAIb-Ss_BitELRUt907R9nDK1VMZkCXSZBvzbH19ArtcMPpc0yBAZXbXbO9GM&usqp=CAU)
The 'max speed' is unknown until they actually build one I suppose. The geeks on FR could get out their slide rules and figure it out on a theoretical basis.
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posted on
05/21/2024 1:03:14 PM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
To: Red Badger
I wonder what we are going to do with the Klingons?
5.56mm
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posted on
05/21/2024 1:14:39 PM PDT
by
M Kehoe
(Quid Pro Joe and the Ho have got to go. )
To: M Kehoe
Banish them to Uranus........................
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posted on
05/21/2024 1:27:06 PM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
To: Red Badger
"The resulting thrust is produced as combustion propagates and expands against a magnetic nozzle through a process known as deflagration, which involves electrical discharges that create strong magnetic fields and produce high plasma densities and temperatures."Gobbledygook.
To: ClearCase_guy
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posted on
05/21/2024 2:27:36 PM PDT
by
beethovenfan
(The REAL Great Reset will be when Jesus returns. )
To: zeestephen
Inter-planet acceleration is gravity assisted, utilizing gravity of earth - moon - solar system. The main function of the propulsion system is to put the spacecraft in a position to take advantage of gravity for “slingshot” effect.
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posted on
05/21/2024 2:46:01 PM PDT
by
steve86
(Numquam accusatus, numquam ad curiam ibit, numquam ad carcerem™)
To: Red Badger
I support funding this if all LIBs, lefties and communists HAVE TO go to Mars. If that were the case, I would say expedite this program.
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posted on
05/21/2024 2:46:54 PM PDT
by
hal ogen
(First Amendment or Reeducation Camp??)
To: steve86
And that’s why Voyager 1 has reached 11 miles/second relative to the solar system.
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posted on
05/21/2024 2:49:30 PM PDT
by
steve86
(Numquam accusatus, numquam ad curiam ibit, numquam ad carcerem™)
To: hal ogen
Just don’t send all the telephone sanitizers...
To: NWFree
Exactly, I am leaning more and more to the space adventures/ventures being part of the military industrial scam. Throw Billions away, politicians get rich, we get some good AI generated images from artists renditions. Like the space telescope. What is the difference between imaging cells, DNA, etc versus planets, moons, galaxies? It takes special equipment and computers to put together the images. Nothing is real.
I know to look through a telescope I can see Venus, some moons, but I am actually seeing them. Not taking slices of a view and stitching them together.
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posted on
05/21/2024 5:38:53 PM PDT
by
Glad2bnuts
(“And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: We should have set up ambushes...paraphrased)
To: ClearCase_guy
“I would like a Pulsed Plasma Propulsion System in the 40-watt range.”
Just what you see here, pal.
L
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posted on
05/21/2024 5:43:30 PM PDT
by
Lurker
( Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is.)
To: NWFree
But hey—we got 40 years of Low-Earth-Orbit !!
😬 😡 😐 🫤
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posted on
05/21/2024 6:45:01 PM PDT
by
Reynoldo
(BurnLootMurder)
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