The QED engine spectrum - Fusion-electric propulsion for air-breathing to interstellar flight

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Jun 1993

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1993jpmc.confqt...b&link_type=abstract

AIAA, SAE, ASME, and ASEE, Joint Propulsion Conference and Exhibit, 29th, Monterey, CA, June 28-30, 1993, 11 p.

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Air Breathing Engines, Earth-Mars Trajectories, Electric Discharges, Electric Propulsion, Interstellar Spacecraft, Single Stage To Orbit Vehicles, Electrostatics, Relativistic Electron Beams

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A new inertial-electrostatic-fusion direct electric power source can be used to drive a relativistic e-beam to heat propellant. The resulting system is shown to yield specific impulse and thrust/mass ratio 2-3 orders of magnitude larger than from other advanced propulsion concepts. This QED system can be applied to aerospace vehicles from air-breathing to near-interstellar flight. Examples are given for Earth/Mars flight missions, that show transit times of 40 d with 20 percent payload in single-stage vehicles.

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