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Nexus Rocket Engine Test Successful; 10 Times More Thrust Than Deep Space 1 Engine and Lasts 3 Times Longer (10 years)
Does anyone know how much this engine would cut down the time to a
Mission to Mars. If such a mission could take 2 to 3 weeks then gentleman I'm convinced that we will have settlements on Mars in 10 to 15 years providing there is water up there. |
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Trip time was Nexus Rocket Engine
Earl Colby Pottinger wrote in message ...
: Does anyone know how much this engine would cut down the time to a Mission to Mars. If such a mission could take 2 to 3 weeks then gentleman I'm convinced that we will have settlements on Mars in 10 to 15 years providing there is water up there. First it will not speed up trips that much, and the best trips will not change in lenght of time, instead a more powerful engine would be likely used to more a heavier craft. As for the trip time tell you friend he is a fool if he thinks settlements only took place when trip times were two to three weeks he was sleeping all thru history. In the days of sail it was not unusual to take six months to reach you new home and in some cases an one year trip was seen as possible. The design, space-craft and supplies were available right now you would have no problem finding thousands of people today to go on the trip even if the trip time was over a year, even if it was one way only. Your friend is making the same mistake so many other people also do. They think if they would not want to do something then no-one else would. It is not true. Earl Colby Pottinger Well others have written me that DeepSpace1 would make it to Mars in half the time or 3 months. But with these new Ion engines having 10 times more thrust than DeepSpace1 and last 3 times as long, I am calculating it would take about 2 weeks to get to Mars. |
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Earl Colby Pottinger wrote in message ... : Does anyone know how much this engine would cut down the time to a Mission to Mars. If such a mission could take 2 to 3 weeks then gentleman I'm convinced that we will have settlements on Mars in 10 to 15 years providing there is water up there. First it will not speed up trips that much, and the best trips will not change in lenght of time, instead a more powerful engine would be likely used to more a heavier craft. As for the trip time tell you friend he is a fool if he thinks settlements only took place when trip times were two to three weeks he was sleeping all thru history. In the days of sail it was not unusual to take six months to reach you new home and in some cases an one year trip was seen as possible. The design, space-craft and supplies were available right now you would have no problem finding thousands of people today to go on the trip even if the trip time was over a year, even if it was one way only. Your friend is making the same mistake so many other people also do. They think if they would not want to do something then no-one else would. It is not true. Earl Colby Pottinger Well others have written me that DeepSpace1 would make it to Mars in half the time or 3 months. But with these new Ion engines having 10 times more thrust than DeepSpace1 and last 3 times as long, I am calculating it would take about 2 weeks to get to Mars. To do that you need a power supply that supplies ten times the power but does not weigh anymore than the present power supply. Earl Colby Pottinger -- I make public email sent to me! Hydrogen Peroxide Rockets, OpenBeos, SerialTransfer 3.0, RAMDISK, BoatBuilding, DIY TabletPC. What happened to the time? http://webhome.idirect.com/~earlcp |
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Earl Colby Pottinger wrote in message ... : Does anyone know how much this engine would cut down the time to a Mission to Mars. If such a mission could take 2 to 3 weeks then gentleman I'm convinced that we will have settlements on Mars in 10 to 15 years providing there is water up there. First it will not speed up trips that much, and the best trips will not change in lenght of time, instead a more powerful engine would be likely used to more a heavier craft. As for the trip time tell you friend he is a fool if he thinks settlements only took place when trip times were two to three weeks he was sleeping all thru history. In the days of sail it was not unusual to take six months to reach you new home and in some cases an one year trip was seen as possible. The design, space-craft and supplies were available right now you would have no problem finding thousands of people today to go on the trip even if the trip time was over a year, even if it was one way only. Your friend is making the same mistake so many other people also do. They think if they would not want to do something then no-one else would. It is not true. Earl Colby Pottinger Well others have written me that DeepSpace1 would make it to Mars in half the time or 3 months. But with these new Ion engines having 10 times more thrust than DeepSpace1 and last 3 times as long, I am calculating it would take about 2 weeks to get to Mars. The new engine will be not much better than 10 Deepspace1 engines. The new ion engine will make virtually no difference. Ion engines are power limited - in other words, they're only as good as the power source. The power supply will weigh much more than ion engine itself, even if you use solar panels rather than nuclear power. Being power limited they have low initial acceleration which makes them slower than chemical rockets for short journeys like Earth - moon. They do however have great potential for journeys lasting years, such as NEO retrieval or trips to the outer planets. |
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